_ Seems to have changed from the poor reindeer hunter Pe 
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on the icy plateau which gave rise to the great New England 
cier. He locates this mer de glace between Lake Temiscamang i 
Lake Mistissinny, on the Canadian watershed. During the glat 
period the watershed was probably five thousand feet above 
present level, while the White Mountains, the Green Mo 
peaks, and the Adirondacks stood five hundred feet higher 
they do at present ; so that there was a sufficient inclination to 
the sea-coast to allow of a movement in a southeast direction 
the mass of ice. 
ANTHROPOLOGY. 
Scaremc.— Tae “Friend of India” contains a letter from 
Superintendent of Police in the north-eastern district of Beng 
giving an account of scalping among the wild tribes on the 
tier of that district. In commenting on this letter the j oe 
above named says, ‘The Naga tribes use the scalping-knife m 
a ferocity that is only equalled by the American Indians, and 
scalps are carefully preserved as evidences of their prowess 
vengeance over their enemies. On the death of a chief, a 
scalps taken by him during his warlike career are burned with 
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remains.” —Jour. Anthr. Inst. N. Y. 
ARCHEOLOGICAL CHRONOLOGY. — According to a notice ¢ 
“Essai de Chronologie Archéologique” in “Pall Mall Bu 
Professor Forel draws a vivid picture of the time which has elap 
between the deposition of the Schussen glacial beds and the € 
lake habitations. A lapse of time of unknown duration had 
reindeer andthe mammoth had passed away, the Bos prt 
_ alone surviving as a contemporary of the wild boar, red d 
— -roebuck. The flora had changed. To the Alpine flora, 
r scanty vegetation of mosses and lichens which were just 3 
| _ grow on the ice-mud, had succeeded rich and brilliant forests 
_ posed of all our indigenous species of trees. The level of the! 
had fallen 30 mètres, and had assumed its present aspect. 
to the intelligent and active fisher, agricuiturist and m 
to whom are due the relatively highly civilized lake habitat i 
ancient Switzerland, But the use of metal had not been 
‘duced yet, and pott tively high 
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