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very correct in design : the lower lip has too salient an angle at the chin ; the 

 nose is dilated at the muzzle, as it is not in the Reindeer ; and the eyes are 

 immoderately large. In front of the ear there is, as an indication of antlers, a 

 slender horn without a brow-antler, and which would seem as if a young animal 

 was meant to be represented. The hatchings, or marks for hair, are cut on 

 different parts of the figure to mark the projections either of bone or muscle. 

 By the attitude of the body and a certain degree of animation expressed in the 

 head, the figure recalls tolerably well the drawing of a young Wild Reindeer 

 given by Count Mellin in plate viii. of his ' Natural History of the Reindeer ' 

 (see ' Schriften der Berlinischen Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde,' 1783). 

 From La Madelaine. 



Fig. 6. This is a piece of the palm of a Reindeer's Antler, by the natural contour 

 of which the old artist has profited in engraving on its two sides, in light lines, 

 the profile of the head and fore body of an animal which we cannot refer to any 

 other than the Bouquetin or Ibex (Capra ibex}. Its head is rather heavy, 

 and the forehead is not hollow enough. The horns, sketched on one of the 

 branches of the palm, are thin and without exactitude of proportion ; never- 

 theless their simple curvature and the absence of any sign of twist in them 

 permit us rather to refer this animal to the Ibex of the Alps than to that of 

 the Pyrenees. Lastly, it is to the Ibex of the Alps that we may refer other 

 natural and very well characterized remains that have been discovered in the 

 Caves of this district of France. 

 From Laugerie Basse. 



Fig. 7. Here we find a piece of the beam of a Reindeer Horn, with indica- 

 tion of a hole for suspension, and with broken ends. Two animals are here 

 figured evidently galloping, with nose in the air. However much the sketch is 

 wanting in exactitude, nevertheless the general attitude and physiognomy of the 

 two animals, combined with a manifest expression of certain zoological charac- 

 ters (among others, the dilatation of the antlers, however incorrect it may be), 

 make them, in our eyes, represent two Reindeer better than anything else. 



On the opposite side of this piece of the beam of a horn are engraved two 

 figures of Horses, which have not been reproduced on our Plate, in view of our 

 having occasion to figure others in the course of this Publication. 

 From La Madelaine. 



Figs. 8 a, Sb. The objects here represented are, in the original, engraved on the 



