Liberal Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1872-1???, 1872-11-23

SO long IN oblivion. IbiS consclenllous
investigator had, in 1888, the caves OF
Engis and Engihoul, near Lioge,
emptied of their contents, and watched
personally, with several witnesses, the
labor, for many weeks and with the
UTMOST care He described atterward
in large atlas, all the objects found
among them were two human. skulls
and many flint implements, all found
mixed with the remnants of the cave
bear, cave hyeno, etc. At last all
doubts were resolved by the facts
furnished by Boucher dc, Perthes, IN
abbevile. High above the present
valley Of the Somme in Plcardy, exls>
ted undis;urbe layers of dlluvlum,
with. remnants among them OF the
mammoth, rhinoceros, cave bear, cave
hyena, etc +, relies in short of the
whole fauna which inhabited Europe
during the glacial period. ln the
middle of these primitive animal
remains, De Pcrthes, as early as 1898,
found near Abbeville the first few
specimens of flint afrowheads, hatqhes,
knives, etc., and he afterwards dlscov
cred many hu1dreds OF the same.
Moreover, many Of the fossil bones had
been evidently cut and scraped by
means of these flint tools. But, sin
sularly, it vas not until 1868, thirty
years after the first discovery, that
Moulin Quignon found lower jaw and
several other human homes at the
same pace.
This last discovery made some
commotion. \ small congress OF
english aud French gcoloeists assem-
bled in order to inspect the locality
which had yielded human bdnea from
the deposits Of the diluvial period.
| After Bourher de Perthes and Sir
Charles Lyell, in his ccIe' rated wor
on 1.-The Antiquity of Man, had
drawn the attention to these prehistoric
hu,2.c remains. similar discoveries
a.ve succeeded one another cOntlnu
ously. Flint tools, similar to those ol
Abbevi,lc, were found in caves with
the bones Of The diiuyial mammA'ia-
Near Aurigoac, in HATTIE Garonne, th'
exploration OF rabbit hole BY boys led
to the discovery of a large grave, closed
with a stone slab; inside t@is tomt
seventeen haman ST lctons were found
together with imp!em-4 ats of flint and
reindeer horn, AID several fossil men
In fioat of the cave vas hearth, OF
which were numerous broken ard hal
burned bones of the giant deer, rein
deer, cave bear rhinoceros aud othe'
other animals many productions o
human art were also found. Uniortu
nately the mayor of the place had th'
human bones buried in cemetery
where, some years afterwards Lartc
could not fad them This was muc'
dcplorcl BY some investigators wh'
were very anxious for details concer
ning the skeletons Of our most aqclen
ancestors.
Two skulls, ono from the Ncande
cave near Dusseldorf and the othe
from a cave near tiege, appeas to shov
an inferiorty in the developcment o
the brain and similar formation
the case with the recently discovere'
five skeletons in a railroad cutting ii
the department of Dordogne, France
Among these is one of woman an'
one Of child; the uafe skeletons are
in size and power, far superior to tn
French now inhabiting that locality
The faces are very broad, and proml
nenccs for muscle attachments yer.
large. In regard to the mental cultur
; of our ancestors, these discoveric
suggest very sad reflections. Th
male bones show traces OF features an
wounds. while the female skull ha
been cracked by stone Ratchet.
Our readers may be desirous to kn>
something about the chronology G
the events, tho relics of which We hav
noticed. Lyell estimated, some !
years ago the antiquity of man 4