Reviews — Lartet^s ^ Christy's Reliquice Aqmtanicce. 463 



it receives but little rain water, and is only slightly fed by a spring 

 issuing from a sloping bank which divides it from its neighbour. 

 Even here we find fish and a few brackish water shells. 



" Dead trees stand in the water near the margin of the lake, and 

 the soft mud is full of the bones of animals which have perished on 

 its shore. It is a sad and solitary spot. Steep banks surround it, 

 sombre gum trees give a cold colouring to its margin, but slightly 

 relieved here and there by the brighter tints of the lightwood; 

 carrion birds wheel over its still waters, and the whole has a weird 

 aspect, but is yet full of beauty — a picture which the conventional 

 artist would disregard, but one which the trained student would 

 study with delight and profit. Coccolite and fragments of topazes 

 are strewn along the floor in many places. 



'' Mr. H. Cadogan Campbell, when he was stationed at Wai-rnam- 

 bool, had an opportunity of observing the strata sunk through in a 

 well on the south-eastern slope of the margin of the lake. They 

 sank first through about three feet of soil, and then for about sixty 

 feet passed through layers of ash, alternately black and white, and 

 of irregular thickness, though none above an inch or two. At the 

 depth of sixty-three feet the workmen came upon the original sur- 

 face of the ground, which was covered with the common coarse grass 

 now found growing. It was not scorched, hut merely dry, Wee liay} 



"Underneath the ancient grass-clad surface the workmen sank 

 sixty feet through a blue and yellow clay. It was in sinking this 

 well that the skull and some other bones of the Dingo, or wild-dog, 

 were found, being the first decisive proof that this animal is 

 indigenous " (p. 20). 



Space does not permit us to prolong our notice of this very 

 interesting work, which possesses much information for the Miner- 

 alogist as well as for the Geologist. To the practical miner in 

 Australia, the book will prove of the utmost value, and it cannot 

 fail to be read with interest and profit by all who either intend to 

 make mining their study, or are already pursuing it as a profession, 

 in whatever part of the world they may be located. The illustra- 

 tions, maps, and sections are admirable, and reflect the highest 

 credit, as also does the topography, upon our Colonial artists, 

 engravers, and printers. 



m. — Keltqui^ Aquitanic^ ; being Contributions to the Archseology 

 and Palgeontology of Perigord and the adjoining Provinces of 

 Southern Prance. By Edouard Lartkt and Henry Christy. 

 Edited by Professor T. Eupert Jones, F.G.S. May, 1869. 

 4to. Part IX. London : H. Bailliere. 



WE noticed the previous part of this work in our June number, 

 and are glad to receive another instalment towards the com- 

 pletion of this important publication. 



In the part now before us. Dr. Paul Broca continues and concludes 

 his examination of the skulls and bones from the Cave of Cro-Ma^-non. 

 ^ [See Quart. Journal Geol. Soc. London, 1857, p. 227.] 



