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AN A7>fALYSIS OF THE 



Fig. 148. 



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Without the aid of the one it would have been very difficult if not impossible 

 to have determined the significance of the other. But with it and that of the 

 variant of the human face, the determination becomes easy. 



Of radicals in which the inferior extremities are marked by oblique lines, we 

 have a large number of illustrations. The vertical may or may not be produced 

 below the lower pair of divergent lines. 



The apparent likeness announced in the above, forces us to ask ourselves the fol- 

 lowing question : Is the resemblance between outlines, selected from rocks scattered 

 from ]N^orway to Sonth America, merely accidental ? There is a drawing in Morillet 

 from a rock in Norway* (Fig. 149) ; another group in Siberiaf (Fig. 150) ; a third, 



Fig. 149. (*) Fig. 150. (t) 



belonging to rocks of our Western plainsj (Fig. 151) ; a fourth series is seen in the 



* Morillet, Z. c, V, 535, 

 t Pallas, Reise, I. c. 



I Se3 also Journal of the Anthi'Opolo^ical Institute, London, III, 114, pi. 10, .T. Wliitefield. In this paper a 

 number of linear signs are given from Ceara, Ei-azil. 



