274 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
Earliest Races of Men,” the author gives an account of the two races, 
which succeeded one another during the first, or Stone Period. He 
states that — 
“The FIRA of Franoe and England, and the bone caverns of crate jes countries 
and of Belgiu The orig- 
mal ‘discoveries bes tne de shoes at — and Abbeville, Leon gigi up by the 
h, p th ssil mam- 
oth and wi oally + Sarasa ae e e Somme, at a time when it flowed at a 
higher level than at present, and Sala a regan of hill and valley were alto- 
gether different in that district. The labors of the latter, and of Mr. Evans, F. R.S., have 
resulted in the pr n lived ne Britain, from Suffolk on the east, 
as far south as the coast of Hamps' AES My own discoveries in Wookey Hole, Hyæna- 
den, extend their e into p R those of Mr. MacEnery, in Brixham, into Devon- 
shire; and, lastly, those of Dr. ae in Pembrokeshire, into South Wales. Through- 
out the wog of this area, the e types of flint implements and weapons prev: A 
splinte: of flint afforded 1 the only cutting edge ts bener = ares of ns rudely 
ahi Ś spear- 
thei ipal weapon. The s o-called ‘s ling-stones,’ eres intended ies use as ae mite 
or imbedded in in gum, or bound round with withes, as axes, and some pointed masses of 
flint which may have been used for digging, comprise the list of their remains mo the 
gravel-beds.... own. 
and that the cave was inhabited. The evidence s afforded by this scant list of the imple- 
and weapons proves that the race of m ho used them were savages of the very 
lowest order, unacquainted with the art of orina or of making pottery, and living on 
the fruits of the chase without the aid of the ise . +. Thus scant is our knowledge r me 
wh men, Flint Folk par excell that i 
Woolly Rhinoceros with whom they lived, To M. Lartet, an 
late M. Christy, f a second race of men in the oat ot 
France, in t he Department of Dordogne, in the ahad through which flow the Vezere, the 
Dordogne, and their t tributaries. They g , and ac- 
I animals they eat, and vast quantities 
of the implements and weapons they used. In all “the caves aig rock: shelters gees one, 
ituted the dan 
these savages of the Dordogne, who may therefore be conveniently termed grd 
Folk, in contradistinction to the Flint Folk, desorbed apo The presence of the PREK 
the "refuse h cape; proves — the 
f the M d Reindeer. fi l d regions of the north, indi- 
cates Bap nature ‘of the climate at that time in France. The implements are of & 
higher ili f the Flint Folk...- 
The most ost remarkable remaina, however, by far are > figures of animals engraved upon 
stone. antler, ne, or ivory, 
hiet f h at. 
f a deer; the lines, however, are too con- 
fused for specific i dentification. The rock-shelter augerie-basse has furnished an out- 
ere 
dant, and as ne had. no room to draw the hind legs in thelr their natural tion, he doubled 
il agape cypress and thus completed the whole 
with eves. 
ery eran ta ost aise formed the handle of an Picanto 
è s upon | - d figure oe ene species of Fipan wash E 
