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betray so much artistic skill, precision of details, and knowledge of animal life, that MM. Capitan and Breuil regard them as

FIG. 76. Reindeer incised on wall of Combarelles.

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equivalent to precise documents in Palaeontology. Equidae being the most frequent of all animals figured in this cave, no

FIG. 77. Figure of a Wild Goat on the wall of Combarelles. (The last four figures are after Capitan and Breuil.)

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less than forty illustrations, representing at least two species, having been accurately deciphered, archæologists will be greatly interested to know what the explorers regard as the differential

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