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the nostrils wide, tlie alveolar arches projecting, the incisors 

 oblique, the facial angle scarcely exceeding 70 deg. I venture 

 to assert that these characters resemble those of the Negro 

 and Indian more than those of any race now inhabiting Eu- 

 rope. To judge from the length of the thigh and the tibia, 

 this must have been a stunted race, perhaps only five feet 

 high, about the height of the Greenlanders and Lapps. 



"Amongst this great number of bones, there was not one 

 which could be assigned to an aged or even to a strong mus- 

 cular individual ; all the bones belonged to females, youths, 

 and children." 



Spring obtained, also, a parietal bone fractured by some 

 blunt instrument. The instrument which caused the injury 

 was in the same piece of stalagmite ; it was a rudely manu- 

 factured stone hatchet, without any perforation for a handle ; 

 another stone hatchet was also discovered. 



The animal bones, which lay about intermixed with the 

 human bones, were in exactly the same condition. All the 

 long bones were broken ; but those which contain no marrow 

 were entire. There were many teeth of beasts of prey, some 

 boars'-teeth, but none of deer, or any other ruminant ; which 

 is the more remarkable as human teeth, and the long bones of 

 the large ruminants, were very abundant. 



Another surprising circumstance is that, with the exception 

 of a fragment of the lower jaw of a sheep or roe, neither cra- 

 nium, nor horns or antlers of a stag, boar, ox, or aurochs were 

 found. The bones are those of the deer, ox, sheep, roe, boar, 

 dog, fox, marten, and hare ; some bones of the ox and stag 

 are so large that they might be assigned to the aurochs and 

 elk. In addition to these bones were found cinders, pieces of 

 charcoal, and small fragments of burnt clay. 



Spring concludes, and, as it appears, with much reason, that 

 the bones of Chauvaux are the remains of a cannibal feast, — 

 an opinion which he founds on the similar condition both of 

 the human and the animal bones, all of which are broken for the 

 sake of the marrow, and upon the circumstance that all human 

 bones belong to young individuals, whose flesh was, no doubt, 

 preferred on such festive occasions. Dr. Spring also quotes 



