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accumulated by the decay of animal matter and of rubbish; and 
that the débris from the repasts of occasional visitors had been 
gathering for a great many years. An unusually high tide or 
storm probably brought in the shingle from the adjacent sea-beach, 
and after this the cave was again used as a deposit for the dead. 
Nothing was discovered indicating in any way that the place had 
been used or visited by the white races. 
The total number of crania obtained by Mr. Dall amounted to 
thirty-six, besides many hundred implements of bone, ivory, a 
stone, and many carvings of wood and other objects, presenting 
evidence of the existence of large and flourishing communities 
numbering thousands of inhabitants where now none or only rem- 
nants of population exist. : 
Underneath the old villages were found still more ancient 
kitchen heaps of echini, fish bones, and edible shell-fish many feet 
in thickness, the age and time taken in forming them hardly we 
approximated or counted even in centuries. Only in the apps 
strata were seen the indications of progress in hunting and fishing, 
afterward so notable that even the sperm whale succumbed to the 
attacks: of these hardy canoe-men. Their progenitors were CON- 
tent to pick echini from the shore and mussels from the rocks, and 
hardly any implements could be found in the refuse of their re- 
pasts—the accumulation of centuries. é 
After them large villages of solidly constructed homer ee 
and probably at the height of their progress and numerical In 
crease the almost equally barbarous Russian of Siberia fell upon 
them, and nearly swept them from the face of the earth.—Harpers 
eekly. 
Ecyrrian Arcuaorocy.—At the meeting of the Anthropolog- 
ical Institute, June 9, Prof. Busk, F. R. S., president, in we 
Sir John Lubbock, Bart., read a paper on the discovery of : yee 
implements in Egypt. The author began with a sketch yar 
writings and opinions of M. Arcelin and Dr. Hamy, who f the 
tained that the flint implements found along the valley cae ; 
Nile, including a hatchet of the St. Acheul type at Deir-ekBA | 
indicated the existence formerly of a true stone age thers oS 
Western Europe. MM. Mortillet and Broca concurred pe 
view. On the other hand Dr. Pruner-Bey, and especially f 
Lepsius, had expressed the opinion that most of the objects * 
