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together with other human remains disinterred at the same 
time, in his valuable work, “ Recherches sur les ossemens 
fossiles découverts dans les cavernes de la Province de 
Liege,” published in 1833, (p. 59, et seg.) from which the 
following paragraphs are extracted, the precise expressions 
‘of the author being, as far as possible, preserved. 
“Tn the first place, I must remark that these human 
remains, which are in my possession, are characterized, like 
the thousands of bones which I have lately been disinterr- 
ing, by the extent of the decomposition which they have under- 
gone, which is precisely the same as that of the extinct 
species: all, with a few exceptions, are broken; some few are 
rounded, as is frequently found to be the case in fossil re- 
mains of other species. The fractures are vertical or ob- 
lique; none of them are eroded; their colour does not differ 
from that of other fossil bones, and varies from whitish 
yellow to blackish. All are lighter than recent bones, with 
the exception of those which have a calcareous incrustation, 
and the cavities of which are filled with such matter. 
The cranium which I have caused to be figured, Plate I, 
figs. 1, 2, is that of an old person. The sutures are begin- 
ning to be effaced: all the facial bones are wanting, and of 
the temporal bones only a fragment of that of the right 
side is preserved. 
The face and the base of the cranium had been detached 
before the skull was deposited in the cave, for we were 
unable to find those parts, though the whole cavern was 
regularly searched. The cranium was met with at a depth 
of a metre and a half [five feet nearly] hidden under an 
osseous breccia, composed of the remains of small animals, 
and containing one rhinoceros tusk, with several teeth of 
horses and of ruminants. This breccia, which has been 
spoken of above, (p. 31) was a metre [3} feet about] wide, 
and rose to the height of a metre and a half above the floor 
of the cavern, to the walls of which it adhered strongly. 
The earth which contained this human skull exhibited no 
