38 FOSSIL MEN. 



This, let it be observed, is the picture of an abso- 

 lutely primitive people, previously unvisited by Euro- 

 peans " flint -folk " in so far as weapons and im- 

 plements are concerned. They may serve to us as a 

 type of those still older aborigines of Europe whose 

 remains are now exciting so much attention, and we 

 may consider in the following pages their history and 

 probable origin, the remains which they have left, 

 their arts and manufactures, their knowledge, culture, 

 and religion, their physical characteristics, and other 



Fig. 6. SECTION OF THE STOCKADE OB WALL OF HOCHELAGA. (After Cartier*) 



American nations their contemporaries, and may as 

 we proceed apply the result to the explanation of pre- 

 historic man elsewhere. 



The plan and section of the city and its defences, 

 given in figures 6 and 7, are reduced from those in 

 Kamusio's edition of Carrier's Voyages, and are 

 apparently sketches from memory. The stockade 

 was probably of round trunks of trees rather than of 

 planks, but the town was, no doubt, a regular circle, 

 with the houses on one plan. This plan and the social 



