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Section of the cave of Frontal, in Belgium. {Afier Dupont.) a, 

 limestone ; b, deposit of mud of the mammoth age, on which rests a 

 bed of gravel, c, and above this there was, in modern times, a mass of 

 fallen d6bris, d, up to the dotted line. Oi removing this, a hearth was 

 found at e, on which were numerous bones of motlern animals, the 

 remains of funeral feasts. The cave was closed with i flat stone, and 

 within were skeletons, stone implements, ornaments, and pottery of the 

 "neolithic" age. Under these was undisturbed earth of the palae- 

 olithic, or mammoth age. The facts show the succession, in Belgium, 

 of palseocosmic or antediluvian men and of neocosmic men allied to 

 the Basques or to the Laps, and all this previous to the advent of the 

 modem races. 



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