discovered by Dr. Bleicher in a rock-shelter.[1] He is proved to have lived in Palestine by the discovery, by the Abbé Richard,[2] of a flint implement of the ordinary river-bed type on the surface of a stratum of gravel between Mount Tabor and the Lake of Tiberias. He is also proved by the researches of Messrs. Bruce-Foote, King, Medlicott, and Ball,[3] to have wandered over the Indian peninsula from Madras as far north as the valley of the Narbadá, leaving behind in the gravels and brick-earths the same traces of his existence as in Europe.
He is further shown by the discovery of a quartzite implement. Fig. 37, by Mr. Hacket,[4] in the fluviatile strata on the left bank of the Narbadá, near the valley of Bhutrá, to have lived in northern India side by side with wild beasts now extinct, two kinds of elephant (E. namadicus and E. stegodon insignis), two species of hippopotamus, one (H. palæindicus) with four incisor teeth in front of the jaws as in the African, and a second (Hexaprotodon) with six incisors, and a large ox (Bos palæindicus). With these were associated the remains of a buffalo (Bubalus namadicus), identical with the wild arnee the ancestor of the Indian domestic breeds, as well as those of the gavial or long-snouted crocodile of the Ganges. Deer, bears, and antelopes were also represented.[5] From this imperfect list it is plain that at this time the fauna of northern India was
- ↑ Matériaux, 1875, p. 193. Rev. Scient. 15th February 1875.
- ↑ Cave-hunting, 429.
- ↑ Quart. Geol. Journ. Lond. 1868, xxiv. p. 503. Proceed, R. Irish Acad., SS., vol. i. Pol. Lit. and Antiq. p. 389. Int. Congr. Prehist. Archeol., Norwich, vol. 1868.
- ↑ Records of Geological Survey of India, vi. No. 3, 1873, p. 50.
- ↑ Falconer, Palæontographical Memoirs, passim.
