360 SKETCHES OF CREATION: 



megaliths have been found not only in the regions ancient- 

 ly inhabited by the Celts, but also in Syria, Africa, and even 

 in Hindostan. 



A similar association of human relics with the bones of 

 quadrupeds occurs in the turf-pits of Denmark, and the 

 Kjoek kenmoeddings of Denmark and Sweden. The only 

 extinct animals recognized in the latter are the lynx and 

 urus, though bones of the hog and dog are also common. 



To the latter part of the Reindeer Epoch belong also the 

 pile-structures discovered in the lakes of Switzerland. The 

 only extinct species are the elk, the aurochs, and the urus. 

 Remains of still-existing species, as the brown bear, the 

 badger, the pole-cat, the otter, the wolf, the dog, the fox, 

 wild-cat, beaver, wild boar, goat, and sheep, exist in great 

 abundance in the debris dredged from the bottoms of these 

 lakes. 



Of the animals thus shown to have lived contemporane- 

 ously with primeval man upon the continent of Europe, 

 the cave-bear, cave-hyena, tiger, mammoth, mastodon, and 

 others of less importance became extinct before the date 

 of written history ; but these extinct quadrupeds had lived 

 contemporaneously with others which have come down to 

 historic times. The reindeer, referred to by Caesar in his 

 Commentaries, is thought to have survived in Northern 

 Scotland as late as the twelfth century ; the Irish elk ex- 

 isted up to the fourteenth century ; the reindeer continued 

 in Denmark till the sixteenth century ; the urus lingered 

 in Switzerland up to the sixteenth century ; the bison still 

 survives in Lithuania, and the wild boar is abundant in 

 Central Europe. 



It is commonly supposed that the Reindeer folk were the 

 successors of the Cave-Bear folk; but Dr. Packard has very 

 plausibly suggested that they may have lived contempora- 

 neously, side by side. " The Reindeer folk may have in- 



