Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . the department of Dor-dogne, in Southwestern France, anumber of cave dwellings have beenexplored with results confirmatory ofthose attained elsewhere; and in con-nection with these caverns the addi-tional interesting fact was noted thatartificial chambers connected with thenatural vaults in the limestone had beenexcavated and used by the primitive oc-cupants. In 1858 the philosopher, Schaaf-hausen, gave to the pub
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . the department of Dor-dogne, in Southwestern France, anumber of cave dwellings have beenexplored with results confirmatory ofthose attained elsewhere; and in con-nection with these caverns the addi-tional interesting fact was noted thatartificial chambers connected with thenatural vaults in the limestone had beenexcavated and used by the primitive oc-cupants. In 1858 the philosopher, Schaaf-hausen, gave to the public an account ofthe discoveries recently made in thelimestone cavern of Neanderthal, be-tween Dtisseldorf and Elberfeld, includ-ing a description of one of the most re-markable prehistoric skulls which schol-ars have had the fortune to examine. Turning to England, one of the mostimportant of the caverns . r Exploration of formerlv inhabited by men the man caverns . r-r ,1 of England. is that known as Kent s Hole, near Torquay, in Devonshire. 292 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. This was first explored by the scholar,MacEnery, in the year 1825. Nopublished account of the results, how-. and described by William Boyd the naturalist, Goodwin-Austen, had reexamined the cavern ofipag; Kents Hole, andgiven the resultsin a memoir tothe Geological So-ciety. In 1858Dr. Falconer in-formed the samelearned body ofthe interestingdiscoveries madeby himself in acave dwelling atBrixham, also inDevonshire; andafterward a Pro-f e s s o r Ramsayexplored thegrotto and veri-fied the formerconclusions re-specting its con-tents. Explorationswere next carriedinto distant the grotto ofMaccagnone, inSicily, Dr. Fal-coner made dis-coveries in thesame general linewith those alreadyrecorded. Thepeculiarity in thisinstance was thatmany of therelics of men andanimals were )ra\vn In Riou. was made until 1859, when therelics were classified by Mr. Vivian. In1 sr,2, a remarkable hyena den call
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