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HUMAN REMAINS NEAR STRASBURG.

CHAP. XI.

M. Boue had revisited the locality in 1829, and confirmedhis first observations, the judgment of so experienced ageologist went for nothing against the preconceived ideasthen generally entertained as to the geological date ofman’s origin.*

The precious collection of Lahr-hones, filling a box, wasleft by M. Boue in M. Cuvier’s care, and having beenneglected, is now lost. As to their age, I see no reason forsupposing that they were more ancient than those found bySchmerling in the Liege caverns. But if the views whichwill be set forth in the sixteenth chapter are sound, someextensive continental movements of elevation and depression,which happened immediately after the retreat of the greatAlpine glaciers, were of date posterior to the embedding ofthese bones in the ancient mud of the Rhine .

* Akademie der Wissensehaften, yon mir im loess des Rheinthales imSitzungsberichte, Band 8, p. 89, 1852, Jahre 1823 aufgefundenen Mensehen-Dr. A. Bou6, Erlauterungen iiber die knochen.