240 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CHAP.VII. 



Basse been found in a museum without a history, it 

 would be ascribed to the same people as those who 

 engraved the arrow-straightener (Fig. 92). 



The probable identity of the Cave-men with the 

 Eskimos is considerably strengthened by a consideration 

 of some of the animals found in the caves. The rein- 

 deer and the musk sheep, the marmots, the Arctic foxes, 

 the grouse, and snowy owls, which afforded food to the 

 Cave-men, are still used for food by the Eskimos ; and 

 the group of animals hunted by the former in Europe is 

 represented by fossil remains found throughout the vast 

 region which divides the Cave-man of the Upper Danube 

 from the inhabitant of West Georgia. 



Numerous fossil bones have long been known to 

 occur in the frozen morasses, as well as in the river- 

 deposits in the caverns, in Central and Southern Eussia 

 in Europe, as well as throughout Siberia.. In the list 

 of animals described by Dr. Brandt, 1 discovered in the 

 caverns of the Altai Mountains, we may remark the 

 cave-hysena, brown bear, pouched marmot, beaver, alpine 

 hare, elk, stag, roe, bison, horse, and wild boar, as well 

 as the three extinct species, the Irish elk, the woolly 

 rhinoceros, and the mammoth. We do not lose sight 

 of this group of animals until we cross the Straits of 

 Behring into the land of the Eskimos. The remains 

 obtained by Captains Beechey and Kellett 2 in the 

 frozen gravels composing the cliffs of Eschscholtz Bay 



able variations. Those from Victoria Land have a thumb and four fingers, 

 or a thumb only, those from Disco and Cambridge Bay a thumb only, 

 while those from Point Barrow have a thumb and three fingers. 



1 Brandt, Melanges Biologiques tire's du Bull. Acad. Imp. des Sc. de St. 

 Pfiersb., t. vii. 1870. 



2 Beechey, Voyage to the Pacific, 4to, 1831, appendix; Kellett, Zoology 

 0/H.M.S. Herald, 4to, 1854. 



