Well, I am afraid the evidence directly tendst hat way, nor need 

 "Vve be surprised if they were, as many savage tribes practise it 

 even in our own day, at any rate children's bones have been 

 found split open for the extraction of the marrow, and still 

 showing plainly evidence of cooking and the marks of human 

 teeth. That their dress was pretty much like that of modern 

 savages, and consisted of skins, we may conclude from the 

 fact of their bone needles and bodkins, flint piercers, &c. 

 being almost identical with those in use with the Esquimaux 

 and Laplander of the present day ; their ornaments too were 

 much the same, and consisted of teeth or shells perforated 

 and strung together. In one of the Bone Caves lately dis- 

 covered in France there were found, among other things, no 

 less than 22 pounds weight of the bones of the water rat, 

 either scorched or roasted, and which had evidently served as 

 food when more inviting fare had failed, so there was at any 

 rate no novelty in the poor Parisians eating rats during the 

 late disastrous siege. The most interesting relics of the 

 polished Stone Epoch are furnished by the " Kjoekken-moed- 

 dings," or " Kitchen-middens," which means simply kitchen 

 refuse heaps, these are large flattened mounds or beds of 

 shells ; they were long supposed to be natural deposits of 

 fossil shells, and their true character has only recently been 

 known, — they mark the site of the villages or settlements of 

 our early fathers, and are of course always situated close to 

 the sea ; the huts of our ancestors must have surrounded these 

 kitchen-middens, and each household must have contributed its 

 share of oyster shells, cockle shells, fish and animal bones, &c., 

 forming the heap, which often rises to a height of eight or 

 ten feet, while the length is sometimes as much as 1,000 feet, 

 with a width of 150 to 250 feet. These refuse heaps (first 

 noticed in Denmark) have been found in England, France, 

 Australia, and America. In these kitchen-middens numerous 

 most interesting flint relics have been found and also bones 

 of the domestic dog, who, however, appears to have been fre- 

 quently eaten by his master in times of scarcity. I have said 

 that pre-historic man buried his dead in caves, but there is 

 now no doubt that during the latter part of the Stone Epoch 

 and the beginning of the Bronze, there arose those mysterious 

 stone structures which have puzzled the world for so many 



