. Proceedings - Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. nd. There is the hot headed fellow longing for his crossbow(how the word carries one back) to teach the constables duedistance. There are the fiddles and dancing, of all places, in thegrim precincts of the gaol. Theres the thatched house just by inHigh-street, and others up and down the place. Yes, but take itall in all, a vastly more interesting, vastly more picturesque a placeit is that fancy shows us than sight shows us now. TrinityChurch, indeed, poor—All Saints, poor; as rebuilt after the 1622fire. But what houses, what ga


. Proceedings - Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. nd. There is the hot headed fellow longing for his crossbow(how the word carries one back) to teach the constables duedistance. There are the fiddles and dancing, of all places, in thegrim precincts of the gaol. Theres the thatched house just by inHigh-street, and others up and down the place. Yes, but take itall in all, a vastly more interesting, vastly more picturesque a placeit is that fancy shows us than sight shows us now. TrinityChurch, indeed, poor—All Saints, poor; as rebuilt after the 1622fire. But what houses, what gables, what outside galleries—whatquaint variety in this old borough, whereof a hundred and fifty 80 NOTES ON A DORCHESTER MINUTE BOOK. years after Madame DArblay said it was the most antique lookingshe ever was in ! It is quite wrong—an exploded error—actumlaudare tempus. Yet somehow I should dearly have liked to haveseen that long improved away Old Dorchester. §02 $rimtgcmtt£, foith fixation ta paleolithic By J. G. MANSEL-PLBYDELL, Esq.,, HE Neolithic age to which Bos primigenius (Urus)belongs, equally with the Palaeolithic, succeededthe latter in point of time ; between them aconsiderable lengthened period intervened; theyhad nothing in common with each other, the breakwas complete; their implements differed, as did most of the animals they hunted and upon which they fed, severalof which are extinct, while others have disappeared altogether 82 BOS PRIMIGENIUS. from Europe, and now live either in the Polar or in the Equatorialregions, as the reindeer in the first case and the hippopotamus inthe other. Fragmentary as are the relics of the Palaeolithic age,we are able to arrive at certain conclusions as to the condition ofman and his mode of life at that period. Although he hadattained to a certain amount of artistic perfection he was entirelyignorant of the potters art—for no fragments of pottery have everbeen found in their cave dwellings. Fragments o


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