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is found throughout Central Europe, and the temperate regions of 

 Asia. In the mountainous districts of their range they descend to 

 the plains in winter, resorting to the hills in the summer. It has 

 been found with the Mammoth in the quaternary beds of Saint 

 Acheul, in the department of the Somme in France, by which the 

 index of the climate of the north of France at the termination of 

 the Tertiary Period is ascertained. The roe occurs also in the 

 Forest-bed of Norfolk, which preceded the laying down of the 

 boulder clay ; a period of extreme cold, which forced it to migrate 

 southward. At the termination of the Glacial Period it returned, 

 and became abundant in its former haunts. There is abundant 

 evidence that it frequented this county during the Roman occupa- 

 tion. General Pitt-Rivers found its remains in the Romano-British 

 village of Woodcuts, including a shed-horn. At the beginning of 

 the present century the roe was extinct in England excepting 

 perhaps in the extreme north ; in Scotland it was then and is now 

 distributed far and wide. Lord Dorchester introduced a few into 

 his woods at Milton Abbey ; it is now distributed throughout the 

 county, and wherever preserved it becomes abundant. It is shy 

 and untameable. Remains of the wild boar are found in all the 

 Quaternary deposits of Great Britain. Boars' tusks are manufac- 

 tured into ornaments and implements for domestic uses. The tusk 

 found with the remains is broken off a little above its insertion into 

 the jaw ; it was not shed, and is fairly perfect ; it is three inches 

 long, with a strong upward curve ; the three edges are extremely 

 sharp and cutting ; the upper face, which is four-fifths of an inch 

 across, is slightly concave ; the inside border has an elevated ridge ; 

 the outer-face, which is nine-tenths of an inch broad, is concave at 

 the base ; the inner is also concave, seven-tenths of an inch broad 

 at the base. The Giltliead is now common on the coast of the 

 island, and the limpet is one of the commonest sea-mollusks. 

 It occurs in great quantities in the Quaternary deposits at 

 Blashenwell, near Corfe Castle. The chips of the cuttle-fish are 

 difficult to account for ; their phosphorescence might have given 

 them a superstitious value. All the land-shells are now living on 



