GOSSIP — -ON ANTIQUITY OF MAN. 87 



were the extinct species. Thev are just in such proximit}' or 

 association, as though the extinct monsters had held the same 

 relation to man as the domesticated cattle of the present day — 

 as though it were a millenial period — the teeth of a mammoth 

 being found by the skull of a young person — another skull in a breccia 

 in which was the tooth of a rhinoceros — another in which a perfect 

 ilint tool was in close proximity to the leg of a cave bear ; and nu- 

 merous other instances of fraternal position between these and other 

 ■extinctions and the human race. You of course cannot believe in 

 this harmony of nature, and therefore it is necessary to account for 

 the position of these remains in some other way. It may puzzle 

 you to think how it could have occurred at all, judging from any 

 progressive changes that come under observation at the present day. 

 But there is another fact to which, in the third place, I beg to 

 advert, and which seems to me to be still more strange when 

 properly considered ; but which is relied upon as the strongest 

 evidence of the coeval existence of man with the extinct species. 

 It is the finding of the remains of man and his tools and imple- 

 ments, in the loicest part of the loicest strata of sand, gravel, &c., 

 both in the cave deposits and river alluvium. I will recite some of 

 these instances : — 

 Cave Deposits : — 



1 . The cavern of Pondres, in Avhich human bones occurred in the 

 same mud with the bones of an extinct hyena and rhinoceros. The 

 cavern was in this instance filled up to the roof with mud and gravel 

 in which fragments of two kinds of pottery were detected — the lowest 

 and rudest at the bottom of the cave, below the level of the extinct 

 mammalia. 



2. In the caverns of Engis and Engihoul, on the Meuse. — 

 *' Speaking generally, it may be said that human bones, where any 

 were met Avith, occurred at all depths in the cave mud and gravel, 

 sometimes above, and sometimes beloiv those of the bear, elephant, 

 rhinoceros, hyena," &c. 



S. Lyell's exploration in the Engihoul cavern. — "Bones and 

 teeth of the cave bear were soon found, and several other extinct 

 quadrupeds. * * My companion continuing the work 



perseveringly ybr tveeJcs after my departure, succeeded at length in 

 extracting from the same deposit, at the depth of two feet below 



