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A few words will suffice to describe the different objects. 



Flints may be had by the ton from the drift in France and 

 elsewhere ; but here we have two small flints from le Moustier, 

 which Mr. Augustus Franks, director of the Society of 

 Antiquaries, considers to be specimens of the very earliest period 

 yet known. They are from the cavern of le Moustier, whose 

 floor now lies ninety feet perpendicular above the present bed of 

 the Vezere. No reindeer bones have been found here, but 

 quantities of unquestionable implements. 



Next in probable order of date is one from Laugerie, near le 

 Moustier, but a site less elevated. 



Two specimens of Stalagmite are from the floor of a cave at 

 Les Eyzies, one shewing both bone and flint, with foiu" flint 

 flakes from the same cave. 



A small lump of black flint, and 8 flakes, are from a cave at 

 La Madeleine. 



Three bones of reindeer are from the same place, one of them 

 being a fragment of a harpoon ; and the rest are the bones of 

 the foot of the reindeer, 5 in number, found together, from 

 Laugerie haute. 



Carved reindeer bones and horns have only been found at 

 three places in Dordogne, viz : Les Eyzies, Laugerie basse, and 

 la Madeleine. Remains of the reindeer have, however, been 

 found at Abbeville, S. Acheul, and at Bedford, 



The reindeer period is especially interesting, as being enriched 

 by no less than fifty tombs of human remains, which have been 

 discovered since 1862. These remains have all been examined 

 and described by Dr. J. E. Pruner-Bey, in a paper which is to 

 found in the handsome volume, Eelliquise Aquitanicse, 4to, 1875, 

 together with a paper by Professor Paul Broca, general secretary 

 of the Anthropological Society of Paris. The former of these 

 authorities considers that they belong to a race very similar to the 

 Lappish and Finnish races ; and the latter considers them to 

 represent a race taller than the present average of Eiu-ope, and 

 taller than those of whom similar remains have been found in 

 Belgian caves. 



The skeletons from Dordogne have been determined to be 

 probably coeval with the specimens of Reindeer Sculpture, by 

 comparison of their specific gravity. 



