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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Identifier: earthitsinhabita386recl (find matches)
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
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FAUNA, FLOE A, AND INHABITANTS. 393 precious treasures, including not only the bones of extinct animals, but also those of the aboriginal inhabitants of the country. The cavern of Goyet, which yielded the bones of five hundred bears, is interesting, no doubt, but must cede to that of Engis, near Liège, in which Schmerling, some forty years ago, found a human skull amongst the bones of rhinoceroses, elephants, and other large animals now extinct. That lucky find confirmed Tournal's discovery of 1828, and victoriously demonstrated the fact that man was a contemporary of these gigantic pachyderms, Fie:. 221.—A View in the Valley of the Lesse.
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and had struo-oled with bears, hyenas, and lions for the possession of the caverns which he inhabited. The rude stone implements of the earliest human inhabitants of Belgium have been discovered at Mesmin, near Namur. Man at that time shared the country with the mammoth and rhinoceros, and lived principally in the plain. The charming valley of the Lesse, which joins that of the Meuse above Dinant, was hardly visited formerly, but became suddenly famous through the discovery of prehistoric remains by M. Dupont in 1864. Its cliffs, near the villao-e of Furfooz, abound in caverns, one of which, known as the hole of the Nutons, was popularly supposed to be the dwelling-place of hobgoblins. These caverns were inhabited by men of the stone age. The troglodytoe of the Lesse knew how to make fire by means of flints. They were hunters, and had no

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