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the south before the advancing glacier ice-sheets. The 

 changing climate might by degrees suit him well 

 enough, for do not the Greenlanders of our own time 

 live in comfort in their own way among and on the 

 edges of the snows and glaciers of Greenland. Ethno- 

 logically, Professor Boyd Dawkins, in ' Cave Hunt- 

 ing,' has compared them to our own Palaeolithic Man. 

 If- in Britain such men survived the Glacial epoch, 

 their blood, much diluted, may even be among us still. 



Before quitting this part of the subject I may repeat 

 that on the Continent, in caves on the Meuse, Dr. 

 Schmerling found bones of men mingled with those of 

 the Cave Bear, Hyaena, Elephant, and Rhinoceros. 



In a magnificent work, ' Reliquiae Aquitanicae,' by 

 the late Messrs. Edouard Lartet and Henry Christy, 

 ably edited by Professor T. Rupert Jones, an account is 

 given of the caves of Dordogne in the south of France. 

 These, in the valley of the river Vezere, have yielded 

 bones of Hycena andFelis spelcea (Lion), Ursus spelceus, 

 Wolf and Fox, the Mammoth, Musk Sheep, Aurochs, 

 Chamois, Ibex, Reindeer, Red Deer, Megaceros Hiber- 

 nicus, Horse, and a few others, and among these were 

 found numerous implements both of flint and bone. 

 The caverns were inhabited by man, and numbers of 

 the bones have been broken, partly for the extraction of 

 the marrow. Among the bone implements are needles, 

 harpoons, and daggers, while of stone there are 

 numerous flint knives, spear-heads, &c., all made by 

 chipping, and, unlike neolithic implements, quite un- 

 polished. More interesting still, on the bones and horns 

 themselves are carved prehistoric drawings, executed with 

 considerable skill, of the Reindeer, Horse, Ibex, Bison, 

 Birds, and most important of all, from the Cave of La 

 Madelaine, in Dordogne, an unmistakable incised draw- 



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