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has produced faithful representations which are not without a good 

 deal of spirit. The representations are line drawings, the depth of 

 the lines varying from 5 to 12 mm., and they have a thick patina- 

 tion. The Lybico-Berber is not such a good artist, and its work 

 consists of pointing (pointillage) ; figures of that period are much 

 less darkly patinated, and it is quite easy to distinguish the former 

 from the latter. Moreover, this pointing covers, in several places, 

 the prehistoric engravings which represent a fauna no longer 

 existing in the country ; the elephant, the rhinoceros, the buffalo 

 have disappeared. In the Lybico-Berber engravings the reproduc- 



Fig. 14. 



tions are that of alphabetical signs, or of animals still living in the 

 region," &c. 



In the figure given by Pomel in his paper on Bubalus antiquus, 

 Duv.,* and here reproduced, it is easy to recognise in the back- 

 ground the Bhinoceros simus, from the manner it carries its head. 

 Pomel, who did not know the animal, mistakes it for the wart-hog, 

 Phacochcerus cethiopicus. Flamand is therefore justified in concluding 

 that it is impossible to admit that an artist might have depicted by 

 pure chance, and in several places, an animal which no longer existed 

 at the time he made a figure of it — figures the authenticity of which 

 are corroborated by a study of the reconstructed skeleton.! Thus at 



* " Carte Geologique de l'Algerie Bubalus Antiquus," by A. Pomel. Alger, 1893. 



f Pomel, loc. cit., p. 81 et sequit. The figure is almost of the size of the animal, 

 viz., lm. 71c. at the shoulder, lm. 53c. at the hindquarters. The restoration of 

 the animal gives lm. 85c. and lm. 70c, respectively as the height of these parts. 



