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was found near Rochester, and on the same level but at some 

 distance from the burial were hearths with charred wood, 

 bones, and flints. Interesting excavations have also been 

 made in Jersey. Investigations into the study of early man 

 in Argentine territory tend to upset the claims of extreme 

 antiquity of man in that region and to shew only the former 

 presence of the comparatively modern Indian race, and 

 nothing seems yet to have been proved as to the 

 existence of very early man in any part of South America. 

 This applies also to the recent discovery of supposed ancient 

 remains at Cuzco, Peru. Two bones of a prehistoric horse 

 have been found at Bishop's Stortford, similar to the discovery 

 made there some j^ears ago. Paintings, consisting of ten 

 red bands about a foot long and one or two inches broad, 

 arranged in a fan-like pattern, and covered by a thin coating 

 of stalagmite, were found in Bacon's Hole, Gower, and 

 supposed to be prehistoric ; but further evidence throws 

 great doubt on this assumption. There are many of these 

 caves along this coast, which I used to know well as a boy, 

 and though I never observed any paintings, the stalagmite 

 was in great abundance and apparently still forming, to 

 judge by the dripping state of the cave, so that any paintings, 

 &c., might soon get covered with it. For the first time, clay 

 figures of Palaeolithic date have been met with, three having 

 been found in a cave in Montesquieu-Aventes, France. Two 

 of them, 26in. and 30in. long, represent a bull and cow bison, 

 and had been apparently attached to the wall of the cave, 

 the third was more roughly modelled. Many footprints of 

 Palaeolithic men and bears were found, and the same cave 

 also contained mural paintings of animals. Near Prerau, in 

 Moravia, has also been found the best carved Palaeolithic 

 example known of an ivory statuette of a mammoth, about 

 4|in. long. Mr. R. Lydekker has described, from an ancient 

 Assyrian sculpture, an antelope of African type, not now 

 known either in Assyria or to science, and Egj^ptian 

 sculptures of the 6th dynasty have been found of the Dorcas 

 Gazelle, the white oryx, and the Nubian ibex, tied up by 



