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out stretched fingers apparently painted and stenciled in this manner, 
often in red,in nearly all the caves. Along the Glen Lake river valley 
near Kimberly, West Australia and on Bulgar Creek, New South 
Wales the caves display hearts, white human figures on black back- 
grounds, staring faces outlined in red, with yellow lines, figures of the 
rising-sun, and Phallic symbols, where the stenciling according to Mr. 
Enright has often been done by blowing powered pipe clay from a de- 
posit near at hand (sometimes white and sometimes stained yellow by 
oxides) upon the greased rock. Strangest sight of all must be the 
weird shelter on Nardo Creek in Central Queensland where a diabol- 
ical picture 70 feet long seems to represent a lake out of which are 
stretched hundreds of brown human arms pointing, grasping and 
knotted in many positions as if writhing in torture. 
Mr. Wornsop and others _oree? in vain for aclue to the meaning of 
the rock paintings, have set in the refusal of neighboring natives 
to account for them , just as earlier observers in America, were wont to 
quote indian ignorance of mounds, and earthworks. But on the other 
hand Mr. Enright noting the fresh appearance of many of the designs, 
speaks of one of the decorated caves recently inhabited by a native 
named Cutta Muttan, without doubting that the later had done the 
painting. No doubt he did, and small question that natives now living 
in Australia could if sympathetically approached by Ethnologists (who 
living with them had gained their confidence), explain all the designs, 
—H. C. MERCER. 
Man and the Fossil Horse in Central France.—Not many 
hundred yards from the classic rock shelters of Laugerie Haute and 
Laugerie Basse (which contain according to the French classification 
Magdalenian and Solutrean culture layers) a recently exposed talus, 
along the Manaurie brook an affluent of the Vezere (department Dor- 
dogne Commune Tayac, France) has revealed an interesting and sur- 
prising deposit of human remains associated with bones of the fossil horse. 
M. M. Chauvet and Riviere digging a trench 17 meters long, 1.80 meters 
broad and 3 meters deep, found in one day, three hundred and more 
horse-teeth together with other horse bones generally broken by human 
hands, besides the remains of the badger (Meles taxus) and the canine 
tooth of a large carnivore. No fresh water or marine shells were found 
but with the bones about two hundred chipped flint axes (“ Turtle- 
backs ”) of so-called Chellean type, or of similar ovate form worked 
only on one side, were unearthed in a few days, with three Mousterian 
racloirs, four discoidal flints, two Magdalanian flakes, two scrapers, 
