suspicions that the practice of _Sutti_ was recognized. Around a
skeleton, more or less entire, are often found, at regular distances,
the ashes of bodies that were burnt; just as if the chief was interred
in the flesh, but his subordinates given over to the flames. The posture
is, frequently, one which, on the other side of the Atlantic, has called
forth numerous remarks. Throughout America, it was observed by Dr.
Morton, that one of the most usual forms of burial was to place the
corpse in a half upright position, or a sitting attitude, with the
knees and hams bent, and the arms folded on the legs. Now this is a
common posture in Britain--a clear proof of the extent to which similar
practices are independent of imitation. If any ornaments be found with
the corpse, they are chiefly of cannel coal. The implements are all of
stone, or bone--the celt, the arrow, the spear-head, the adze, and the
mallet.

What was the physical aspect of the country at this time? The present,
_minus_ the clearings--wood and fen, fen and wood, in interminable
succession; woods of oak in the clay soils; of beech on the chalk; of
birch, pine, and fir in the northern parts of the island. The boats were
essentially _monoxyla_, _i.e._, single trees hollowed out, sometimes by
stone adzes, oftener by fire. The chief dresses were the skins of
beasts.

Such is what archaeology tells us. The other questions belong to the
naturalist. What was the ancient Fauna? Whether the earliest men were
cotemporaneous with the latest of the extinct quadrupeds, has been
already asked--the answer being doubtful. How far the earliest beasts of
chase and domestication were the same as the present, is a fresh
question. The sheep may reasonably be considered as a recent
introduction; but with all the other domestic animals there are,
perhaps, as good reasons for deriving them from native species as for
considering them to be of foreign origin. The hog of the present breed,
may indeed be of continental origin; so may the present cat, horse, and
ass. Nevertheless, the hog, cat, horse, and ass, whose bones are found
in the alluvial deposits, may have been domesticated. The Devonshire,
Hereford, and similar breeds of oxen may be new; but the _bos
longifrons_ may have originated _some_ native breeds, which the
inhabitants of even the earliest period--the period of stone and bone
implements--may have domesticated. The opinion of Professor Owen is in
favour of this view; and