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The epoch of the mammoth and the apparition of man upon the earth (1878)

Southall, James Cocke, 1827-1897 · London, Trübner & Co. · leaf 128

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rAdrien Arcelin, Paris, 1875. io6 THE EPOCH OF THE MAMMOTH, the heartlis wliicli he encountered, and which occurredat the depth of i metre 40 (4 ft. 7 in.). At this point,having first passed through a friable earth, containingfele-meU bones of o..en, reindeer, and horses, he struckan enormous slab,… … Sepulture at Solutrd. J SURFACE DEPOSITS. 107 The slab was surrounded by a compact circle ofstones, forming a sort of border for it, and on it at fulllength reposed a skeleton. Under the right hand ofthis were placed two lance-heads of flint taillees agrand dclat, perfectly preserved and of large…

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