serpent clan, or totem, receiving homage from * * * subordinate 

 tribes." "Many of these clay tablets are painted, but the arrangement of 

 color, which resembles the Chinese style, is such as to render it very dif- 

 ficult to determine the nature of the scenes depicted." They are also 

 patiuated. A perplexing feature, however, is "the want of proper 

 division between the figures, " which is ascribed to a fundamental idea of 

 "space economy," and which "to our eye creates hopeless confusion. The 

 large figures are made up of many smaller ones, and the designs are 

 hard to decipher. * * * A foot in one group is liable to serve as a 

 head in another, the arm of one becomes the leg of another," etc. More- 

 over, "a specimen held one way shows one design, reversed another, 

 turned again, still another, and so on up to four." Most readers will 

 heartily concur in the author's qualified opinion that "it is hard to under- 

 stand such artistic methods" (page 11). The sculpturing is not external 

 alone: "Many of the tablets contain a layer of clay through the center. 

 * * * This interior layer of clay presents a second face as perfect as 

 the first, and in every case is found worked up with figures or painted ;" 

 and "the most perfect depictions of the human form * * * were found 

 upon the inside clay surfaces of some of these stones." Mr. Doughty's 

 active imagination is able to find not only "traces of animal matter" in the 

 tablets, but "parchment or skin dressed in clay;" and upon this scroll 

 "appears an excellent male head, a full figure of a very fat gentleman, 

 and other devices" (page 12). In short, "these tablets appear to be 

 simply the clay books of the men of the drift ; " and this interpretation is 

 sustained by a quotation from Job, xix, 23 (page 13). 



The pebbles are hardly less significant to Mr. Doughty ; many are 

 heads in profile and full face ; some bear ' 'Indian figures and feathered 

 head-dresses strongly marked. Others represent faces of a distinctly Cau- 

 casian type, and are often heavily bearded. Sometimes the beard is 

 represented as a mere goatee, at others as being blown by the wind, at 

 others still cut square after the Assyrian style." "Other heads have 

 been found of strongly- marked negroid features and cranial shape ;" 

 and it is truly remarkable that the Caucasian pebbles are white, the 

 negroid pebbles black and the Indian pebbles brown, and even more 

 remarkable that the Caucasian heads "wear hats of various recognized pat- 

 terns" (page 9). Most striking of all is the solitary instance "of a 

 white face with strongly-marked Celtic features, and a heavy red 

 beard and moustache." The author suggestively adds, "I have found 

 no representative of the cow, but of the man-headed bull I have several 

 examples" (page 10). Other "existing animals" are "the dog, horse, 

 sheep, rabbit, black bear, wolf, anthropoid ape, elephant, green adder, 

 parrot and smaller birds, and the dolphin or whale." There are also 

 many prehistoric animal forms, including "an animal of hippopotimus 

 [sic] type, a large web-footed bird somewhat resembling the dodo, and, 

 lastly, a reptile with a long snout and flattened paddle-like tail" (page 10). 



Not content with proving the existence of man in the drift by these 

 remarkable carvings, Mr. Doughty ventures to predict that the "Old 

 Man of the Mountain, that gigantic human profile cut on the New Hamp- 



