. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . ers, while repairing the fortifications of the place. Here, in a bedof gravel some eight feet below the surface, fossil bones of an elephantwere found; and, immediately below them, a flint knife; while ata still lower level, stone axes were discovered. The existence of human works in Gallic diluvian drift, appears to beproven. Similar works have also been found in the alluvium of thesame localiti
. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . ers, while repairing the fortifications of the place. Here, in a bedof gravel some eight feet below the surface, fossil bones of an elephantwere found; and, immediately below them, a flint knife; while ata still lower level, stone axes were discovered. The existence of human works in Gallic diluvian drift, appears to beproven. Similar works have also been found in the alluvium of thesame localities: and, inasmuch as the best geologists say that each ofthese formations may have occupied myriads of years, it will be inte-resting to trace connexions between the two periods. This Ave shallnow attempt by an examination of some rude mementos of thoseancient times entombed in mother earth. In later Celtic sepulchres,(besides stone axes, of regular shape and high polish,) numerous uten-sils wrought from deers horns were discovered, of which we havegiven specimens when treating of axes. * 1st. Section of Diluvian Beds at the Ramparts of 207. Flint knives a. and axes. l< II. 1. f&&$& mm I. Recent. — Thickness 6 Vegetable Rubble. II. Diluvian formation (clysmien Br.).A. First bed—\\. Yellow sand—, rolled and broken, mixed with sand. Second bed—dgtritique Br.—9 11 1. Masses of silex, rolled and broken,mixed with gravel and ferruginous j sand. Below this mass the silextends to form oblique The same silex, forming a large bandin green 3 3. The same silex, forming sinuous veiusin black sand, colored by carbon fromthe decomposition of 4. Vein of white sand, containing alayer of silex and bands of Veins of green sand— Celtic instruments found in the dilu-vian mass. IN CONNECTION WITH HUMAN ORIGINS. 363 An instance of the early use of deers FlG- 209- horn, (me
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