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conclusion, I should say that the animal is figured as walking slowly along, 

 with its nostrils near the ground, either for one or other of the purposes above 

 mentioned. 



It must be distinctly understood that the above remarks have been suggested 

 by a comparison with the Caribou of Newfoundland. 



Fig. 98. 



Incised Outline of a Reindeer, on a piece of Reindeer Antler, from the Kesslerloch, a Cave or Rock-shelter 

 near Thiiingen, Canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland. Natural size. 



(Copied from Professor Albert Helm's drawing in the plate illustrating his memoir "On a Find of the Reindeer 

 Period in Switzerland,''' in the 'Mittheil. antiq. Oesell. in Zurich,' vol. xviii. Heft 5, 1874.) 



,:._ 



The surface of the cylindrical and engraved piece of Antler is here shown as if extended open : 



A, A, The side with the figure of the Reindeer; 



B, B, The other side, bearing incised marks, possibly representing herbage and water. 

 a, a mark a line between the two sides of the engraved antler. 



The one-holed Baton, Pogamagan, or Arrow-straightener (broken) which bears this remarkable engraving 

 is figured in the 'Mittheil. antiq. Gesellsch. Zurich," vol. xix. Heft 1, 1875, pi. 8. fig. 68, among the many 

 interesting illustrations of Herr KONRAD MEKK'S memoir "The Cave-find in the Kesslerloch" &c. 



