. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. The Prehistoik Ilitiiicr. 31. SPKAK-IIEAD FOUND AT SAMK I' As AXK I ROM OK ALFKKD M. MA^ KK. with the bones of the animals they slew, anil whose flesh was probably their only food. These gravel-beds, forming what is called river-drift, are of great age. Lyell is of opinion that the chipped-flint implements and the bones found in the drift of the river Somme, in I'rance, are at one hundred thousand years old ; while other
. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. The Prehistoik Ilitiiicr. 31. SPKAK-IIEAD FOUND AT SAMK I' As AXK I ROM OK ALFKKD M. MA^ KK. with the bones of the animals they slew, anil whose flesh was probably their only food. These gravel-beds, forming what is called river-drift, are of great age. Lyell is of opinion that the chipped-flint implements and the bones found in the drift of the river Somme, in I'rance, are at one hundred thousand years old ; while others hold that two hundred and fifty thousand years have elapsed since these ancient men hunted with their rude arn\s such extinct animals as the great Irish elk, the mammoth, the urus, and the cave bear. With their stone axes and flint spears they brought down the n()l)U; game, and skinned and cut it up witli their flint knives. The gigantic Irish elk. whicli stood ten feet in height and carried magnificent antlers which spreatl eleven feet from tip to tip; the urus, which disappeared in historic times, and which was descriln^d b\ Ciesar as " nearly ecpial to the elephant in i)ulk, but in color, shape, ami kind resembling a bull "; the cwv. bear, longer than our grizzK ; the cave lion ; the hyena; a woolly-haired rhinoceros; a hippo|)ola- mus ; tJK; nianunoth ; the aurochs, or l)isoii ; the musk-ox; the wild horse; tlu!se were the animals huntei,! by these most ancient of prehistoric men. They have all |)asseil away, except the aurochs, which the Russian (iovernmeiit lias saveil from extermination bv strictly guarding them in the fort'sts of Lithuania, and the musk- ox, which, however, now li\-es in the; arctic n^gions and is sel- dom seen below the parallel of sixt\-eight. The rest are only known to us from their bones, exceot tiie mammoth, which has. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readab
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