166 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CHAP. vi. 



discovered by Dr. Bleicher in a rock-shelter. 1 He is 

 proved to have lived in Palestine by the discovery, by 

 the Abbe* Eichard, 2 of a flint implement of the ordinary 

 river-bed type on the surface of a stratum of gravel 

 between Mount Tabor and the Lake of Tiberias. He 

 is also proved by the researches of Messrs. Bruce- 

 Foote, King, Medlicott, and Ball, 3 to have wandered 

 over the Indian peninsula from Madras as far north as 

 the valley of the Narbada", leaving behind in the gravels 

 and brick-earths the same traces of his existence as 

 in Europe. 



He is further shown by the discovery of a quartzite 

 implement, Fig. 37, by Mr. Hacket, 4 in the fluviatile 

 strata on the left bank of the Narbada, near the val- 

 ley of Bhutra, to have lived in northern India side 

 by side with wild beasts now extinct, two kinds of 

 elephant (E. namadicus and E. stegodon insigwis), two 

 species of hippopotamus, one (H. palceindicus) with four 

 incisor teeth in front of the jaws as in the African, and 

 a second (Hexaprotodon) with six incisors, and a large 

 ox (Bos palceindicus). With these were associated the 

 remains of a buffalo (Bubalus namadicus), identical with 

 the wild arnee the ancestor of the Indian domestic 

 breeds, as well as those of the gavial or long-snouted 

 crocodile of the Ganges. Deer, bears, and antelopes 

 were also represented. 5 From this imperfect list it is 

 plain that at this time the fauna of northern India was 



1 MatJriaux, 1875, p. 193. Rev. Sclent. 15th February 1875. 

 Cave-hunting, 429. 



3 Quart. Geol. Journ. Lond. 1868, xxiv. p. 503. Proceed. E. Irish 

 Acad., SS., vol. i. Pol. Lit. and Antiq. p. 389. Int. Qongr. Prehist. 

 Archeol, Norwich, vol. 1868. 



4 Records of Geological Survey of India, vi. No. 3, 1873, p. 50. 

 6 Falconer, Palceontographical Memoirs, passim. 



