Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-09-01
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earshot of Les Eyzies a series of stations which taken together furnish data on human his tory practically from Acheulian times to the present day These stations begin with the old obscured shelter of La Micoque, include the par tially ruined shelters of Upper and Lower Lau- gerie; another ledgesheter that served old-time brigands as rendezvous and also fortress to defy the English in 1410; still another ledge marked by ruins of what looks like old baronial chateau; and end up finally with the less well-kept houses of the modern peasant. These houses often stand on several meters of ancient rec-bearing debris and seem to cling in infantile sort of way to the hanging cliff in spite of it's cold, damp nature Some distance up the Vezere, at the Rock of St. Christopher, where the last houses have been moved there over four meters of debris dating from neolithic to present time, and the adjacent cliff is marked by several series of par alel holes, cut for the insertion of ceiling beams precisely we find them in Southwest Some of these holes high up the cliff but others are below the surface of the accumulated debris, which is itself below the high-water mark of the river, With all this evidence suggestive of continuous occupation, it Is not to be wondered at that some students profess to see among the local inhabitants number of individuals that resemble the physical type of paleolithic man.
 A visit to the painted caves is the experience of lifetime; but while it is an adventure bound to excite more enthusiasm than the examination of the shelters, 1t is less instructive and certainly less convincing It Is also an undertaking fraught with some difficulty and disappointment, except perhaps In such cases as Altamira, Niaux and Font-de-Gaume. The painted and incsed repre- sentations on the walls seldom so plain and striking might infer from the superb reproductions in the published reports and to make them out the visitor must take time. In this effort to decipher, he is most ably assisted by Prof. Emile Cartailhac of Toulouse who has given a good part of his life to the study of paleothic art and who present guards nearly all the Pyrenean caverns. In Spain and in the Dordogne country, however, local guides must be taken, and these not always competent, the student who would profit by his opportunity must prepare himself beforehand in regard to what is to be seen and then insist on being shown, he may not much
 The last to be discovered and also the most beautiful is the Tue dAudoubert, located the estate of Count Begouen, near Sant- t-Girons, France This is perhaps the most difficult cavern to explore. But to risk passage in the improvised boat that the visitor must sail in order to reach the interior, and to crawl on his stomach along muddy passages that really too small for a fullgrown man. and finally to receive innum- erable bumps on his head from pending staac- ttes is not too much to pay for the privilege which, as it happened, accorded the Museums representative the first Amercan-to see the wonders inside Ordinarily, the natural wonders of the caverns more less discolored with mud, but here is gallery after gallery of be- wildering forests of pillars and pendants and posts-all pure white and glittering as if stud ded with myriads of diamonds Here and there the stalactites hang in large sheets like folded draperies and by placing light behind them the translucent substance flashes up in colors of green and rose too beautiful to be described. No fairy palace more adorned! You are led along devious passages stepping again and again in lakelets of invisbly clear water and when on dry footing you are warned to move circumspectly for fear of obliterating some an cient human footprints that are faintly visible under the thin coat of stalagmte which covers the clay floor Bones and skulls of the giant cave bear and other animals lie all about cement ed in place Finally, the extreme inner end of the cavern, comes the real object of the a-