270 FOSSIL MEN. 



seem to have been highly valued by all old races, 

 both of the Old World and the New. The more 

 civilized inhabitants of Central America and Mexico 

 venerated blue or green stones, and mined for turquoise, 

 as did the Egyptians, in their celebrated turquoise 

 mines of the Sinai peninsula. 



A remarkable example of a natural temple is that 



Pig. 40. AMERICAN PICTOGBAPH FEOM SCHOOLCRAFT, taken from a petition 

 presented to the President of the United States, and showing that the chiefs 

 represented by the totems of the crane, the marten, the bear, and the cat-fish, 

 are of one mind and one heart with reference to the possession of certain lakes 

 indicated in the rude map below them. 



of the Koches Percees, on the plains of Western 

 Manitoba, a province which derives its name from 

 the manitou supposed to haunt a wave-beaten rock 

 in one of its lakes.* These rocks are the fantastically 



* See Frontispiece. 



