30 The Prehistoric Hunter. 



We will attempt to give mosaics of these primitive hunters and 

 anglers, formed, it is true, out of rather large stones and of few 

 colors ; for the pictures have to be made out of what fragments 

 this prehistoric man has left of his habitations, his feasts, his flint, 

 bone, and bronze implements his sketches and his carvings. Some- 

 times, however, the arrangement of these fragments will make an al- 

 most accurate picture of him. We can clothe him in his garments, 

 adjust his crude ornaments, place in his hands the arms of the chase, 

 and see him as he once pursued the noble game which everywhere 

 surrounded him. 



The Hunter oe the Drift. 



Deep below the surface of the gravel-beds in many river-valleys 

 in France, England, and various other parts of the world are found 

 stone axes, spear-heads and knives of flint, rudely chipped into 

 shape by races of men who were the first hunters of whom we have 

 any record. The records these hunters have left are these stone 

 implements and their own bones, which are found side by side 



r ARCHJEOLITHIC AGE FOUND AT A DEPTH OF TEN FEET IN THE GRAVEL-BEDS OF THE 

 DILUVIUM AT MOULIN-QUIGNON, NEAR ABBEVILLE, VALLEY OF THE SOMME — 

 FROM THE COLLECTION OF ALFRED M. MAYER. 



