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in the commune of Lourdes, and the department of the Hautes Pyrénées. 
Two years since, it was visited by Alphonse Milne Edwards and Lartet, 
who published a detailed description in the Annales des Sciences Natu- 
relles. Messrs. Garrigou and Martin add many interesting facts to those 
brought forward by these two earlier observers, from which we cite 
the following :— . 
_ “Within the cavern, toward the entrance of the great hall, there are 
great numbers of large blocks of limestone lying together upon a be 
rounded stones. Among these blocks, and especially at their base, are 
heaps of cinders and charcoal, some fragments of which occur at differ- 
rent places in the general deposit of the cavern. Bones, jaws, and teeth 
deer, Aurochs, Ox, Mole, Field Mouse, and Birds. We add, to complete 
this list, a Goat smaller than the Bouquetin and larger than the Chamois, 
and a Sheep of the size of the Go 
The bones of all these animals are broken like those of the Kjoekken- 
modding of Denmark, of the lake habitations of Switzerland, and of the 
caverns, of the age of stone, o iége. 
Among these paleontological fragments, some, on careful examination, 
led us to infer that the domestication of certain animals had been im 
practice during the period under consideration. 
represented by one of the principal markings in the drawing. 
We will conclude what we have to say of the upper part of the cav- 
ern it (a complete description of which is given by Alph. Milne 
_ Edwards), by saying that the specimens collected in this part seem more 
fresh, less altered, and less colored than those of the lower layers. This 
Mast fact has sroaady cmapennerst the minds of those to whom we have 
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