284 EELIQUL& AQUITAJN'ICLE. 



(1) The Editor's Notes to Sven Nilsson's ' Stone Age ' &c.*, 1868, p. 262. 



" My friend Mr. Boyd Dawkins, in his Memoir on the British Fossil Oxen, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 

 vol. xxiii. (1867) p. 183, boldly asserts that the Cave-men of Pe'rigord were ' a people more closely allied to 

 the Esquimaux than any other,' and sums up, as follows, the evidence in favour of this assertion. 



" ' The identity of form of the harpoons, of fowling-spears, marrow-spoons, and scrapers ; the habit of 

 sculpturing animals on their implements ; the absence of pottery ; the same method of crushing the bones 

 of animals slain in hunting, and their accumulation in one spot; the carelessness about the remains of 

 their dead relatives ; the fact that the food consisted chiefly of Eeindeer, varied with the flesh of other 

 animals, such as the Musksheep ; and especially the small stature, as proved in the people of the Dordogne 

 Caverns by the small-handled dagger figured by MM. Lartet and Christy in the ' Eevue Archeologique ' 

 (1864) and in the 'Prehistoric Times' (Lubbock, 1865), p. 255. This combination of characters is found, 

 so far as I know, among no other people on the face of the earth except the Esquimaux ; and therefore 

 I cannot help believing that people in South Gaul occupies the same relation to the Esquimaux as the 

 Musksheep and Eeindeer, on which they lived, hold to those now living in the northern regions.' 



" Since this was written Mr. Busk has shown that the Ursus priscus of our Caves is undistinguishable 

 from the Grizzly Bear of the Eocky Mountains. There is therefore some reason for the belief that the 

 Esquimaux once inhabited Western Europe." 



(2) Treating of some incised marks, monogrammic or literal, and neither Runic 

 nor Ogham, hut possibly related to the latter, Colonel A. Lane Fox, F.S.A. &c., 

 thus writes, in his Memoir ' On Roovesmore Fort, and Stones inscribed with 

 Oghams in the Parish of Aglesh, County Cork,' 1868, pp. 11, 12 : 



"Viewing the resemblance of the Picts' houses and tumuli which abound in the neighbourhood [Island of 

 Bressay] and throughout Ireland and the west of Scotland to the Yourt and Igloo of the Esquimaux, and 

 many other points of resemblance in the implements of the two countries, that might be noticed, and 

 considering also the geographical position of these [inscribed] Bressay stones, upon the confines of the 

 ' Ogham ' region and inclining towards that of the Greenlander and Esquimaux, it seems not impossible 

 that these inscriptions may eventually be found to establish some link of connexion between them an 

 hypothesis rendered all the more probable by considering the very wide extent of territory over which the 

 Esquimaux now range, extending from Greenland on the one hand to Behring Strait on the other, and 

 their affinity to the Tchukchi and even to the Laplander of Europe and Asia. This view of the case is 

 also confirmed by the discoveries which have recently been made in the French Caves, tending, in the 

 opinion of the explorers of those caves, to show that a race akin to the Esquimaux in their arts and 

 implements, if not the Esquimaux race itself, did actually occupy Europe, in conjunction with the Eein- 

 deer, at a time anterior to that in which the Ogham character must have originated in Great Britain 

 and Ireland." 



(3) In < Nature ' (April 22, 1875), vol. xi. p. 493, Mr. CHAKLES E. DE RANGE, 

 F.G.S., thus refers to the probable relationship of the existing Esquimaux and 

 the Cave-folk of the Dordogne : 



* ' The Primitive Inhabitants of Scandinavia ' &c. By Sven Nilsson. Third Edition, revised and trans- 

 lated by the Author, and edited by Sir John Lubbock &c. Svo. London, 1868. 



