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bouring tribes, men were obliged, under pain of destruction, to 

 accommodate themselves to circumstances, and live the violent life 

 of savages." 



"The Cave-dwellers of Cro-Magnon were then savages, like all 

 men of their time ; and we are not astonished that such conditions of 

 existence have left strong traces in their skeletons. 



" But these barbarians were intelligent and improvable ; and 

 whilst continuing to struggle with Nature and to war against their 

 kind, they knew how to make leisure enough to increase their know- 

 ledge, to develop their industry, and, still further, to rise to the 

 culture of the arts. These aptitudes, so precious — rare at all epochs, 

 but truly extraordinary at the time they were manifested among 

 these Cave-folk — could not have dawned but by favor of a fine cere- 

 bral organization, of which we have found the morphological ex- 

 pression in the skulls of the Cro-Magnon race." — (p. 120-121.) 



In the following chapter M. de Quatrefages, Prof, of Anthropology 

 in the Museum of Natural History, Paris, offers some further critical 

 remarks on these Cro-Magnon remains. 



This is succeeded by 8 pp. of Description of the tinted Plates of 

 Flint Implements, four of which accompany the present part, and 

 two Lithographed sketches on the Vezere, taken by W. Tipping, 

 Esq., M.P., F.S.A., in May, 1867. 



The first sketch, "View of the Chateau des Eyzies," is very in- 

 teresting, both pictorially and Archeeologically. " This fine old 

 ruinous Chateau, parts of which have been excavated in the rock 

 against which it is built, stands at an angle to the south-west of 

 Les Eyzies village, near the junction of the Beune with the Vezere." 



The second sketch, " View of Le Eoc de Tayac," is that of a much 

 excavated escarpment, opposite the church of Tayac, and still con- 

 tains many chambers and galleries of an old stronghold, hollowed out 

 of the rock, with occasional openings and vertical passages leading 

 from higher to lower chambers. 



To the Archseologist, the Geologist, and the Artist-Tourist, in 

 search of the picturesque and romantic, this Valley of the Vezere 

 will be found full of interest, and well deserving of a visit. 



IV. — The Scenery of England and Wales : its Character and 

 Origin. By D. Mackintosh, F.G.S., etc. 8vo. 399 pages ; with 

 86 woodcuts. London : Longmans and Co. 



WHEN Man first thought about the earth as bearing on 

 its face the signs of past and present alterations, in the 

 outlines of seas and lakes, the increase and decrease of shoals 

 and islands, and the course and deltas of rivers, he saw in loater 

 the mighty agent of the change. The tropical rains, too, and es- 

 pecially the rare but violent rain-storms of dry countries, such as 

 Persia, with their torrents and destructive floods, shewed its awful 

 power still more vividly. Had this been all, he might have been 

 satisfied with the thought that the rain and sea were ever destroy- 

 ing the hard primeval laud, and grudgingly yielding back a narrow 



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