Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-26
BRATTLEBORO, W.: NOV. rs, 1859

famous by Buckland, the Indian skull said by
Mott and Gliddon to be found under the remains
of twelve successive cypress forests near New
Orleans, and a vast number of supposed dis
covcries of human bones and pottery works of
art associated with extinct animals, in Belgium,
Germany and France.
Few of these cases, however, have been abl.
to Withstand a searching investigation. Besides
cooking and wearing pockets, man is distin-
guished by being burying animal; and this
peculiarly interfercs n good deal with those
geological reasonings which might otherwise be
based upon the association of his remains with
those of extinct animals in caves and superb
cal deposits suitable for sepulture. So long,
in fact, as such instances of association were
few and far betv cen, il was the wiser course to
admit the possibility of the mixture being acci-
dental. But some recent discoveries have COM
plctely changed the face of the whole question,
by proving that implements which, with our
present knowledge, we can only suppose to be
Of human manufacture, are found inseparably
mixed up with the remains of mammoths and
other extinct animals over a wide geographical
area, in great abundance, and under conditions
which preclude the possibility of their having
been buried where we find them.
These instruments are very similar to what
are known to antiquaries as "Celts." Those
oldest and rudest races Of men, who inhabited
primcval Europe-those tribes of whom history
and tradition are alike SILENT and the traces OF
whose works, even, have been almost obliterat-
ed by the waves of succeeding populations, re-
scmbled the savages of the South Sea, when
visited by Cook, in their ignorance of the use
of metals.
Even at the present day the inhabitants o
Tue iN'""uS III iurles "tr"lts KNOWS 1e'tneI lro"
nor bronze All TINS WORK, from the dencatt
carving OF ms canoe TO the cutilhS OH OF MS
enem! head, is uohe win one Implement al
adze, whose blade Is made OF sharpened stone
Our predecessors were IN similar condition
nut instead OF the Jaue OF wmcn the oouth Sct
Islander iaorlcates MS Tools ana weapons they
used the Mandy hihts' whicn can be so readil!
chlpped INTO shape' and are founG IN so many
parts oil the country and these ints fashion
ca Dy chippihB INTO snarp-edSed axe or adz'
heauS' are the so-caileu "Oelts' Such tools Oh
weapons nave long oeeh known TO occur IN th'
our!lhg pIaces Oh ancient men, Out IL IS only
ia'e years thal rrehch ah'iquar!' W. Douchel
Ie iertheS' mace 'he remarkaoie discovery
tneif occurrence IN certain deposits near Aooe
NlIlc, III company win remains OF mammoth
ana extinct animals IL need hardly ne sal'
that the worthy SaraW was pooh-poohed, an'
his important Investigations might have fallei
out OF sight again except for the recent careful
exploration ot a bone cave near BriXham, wher
Celtswere found associated with similar remains
uhder circumstances when admt oil no I'M
/ Pcachmeht. Ills attention beng thus awaken
cd 10 VI. boucner de Ierthcs statements al
eminentiy competent English geologlst' VI
freStwich' determined to examine INTO them 70
hlmSehi ana the results oil his inquiries, whlc
confirm the French anuquarys statements II
all essential respects nave recently been com
| munlcated to the Royal Society. More tha
tins MIR frestwicn mas pointed out that tn
same ASSOCIATION OF Ielts with remains OF ex
tnct animals had been observed at OXney, i
Suffolk, more than seventy years aso and, a
II to verify lne old adage 1T never rams but
pours,' or falconer so well known for his re
searches IN the rai'eontology OF INDIA. and VIII
was activei! gagged IN me investigation OF tn
BriAham cave mas quite lately observed hk
association OF ilnt and agate knives, with eN
tnct animals IN the Grotta de Maceasnone' nea