We have dwelt much on the discoveries of Dr. Schliemann, but we must add that, like all great discoveries, they have been very vigorously contested.66 Boetticher, for instance, considers the ruins of Hissarlik to be nothing more than the remains of a necropolis where cremation was practised according to the Assyrio-Babylonian custom.67 A distinguished and very honest savant, S. Reinach, constituted himself the champion of this theory at the meeting of the Congress in Paris in 1889. Schliemann replied very forcibly, and the meeting appeared to be with him in the matter, as were also a number of men of science who visited Hissarlik in 1888, and we think that in the end history will adopt the opinion of the great Danish antiquarian. We have now passed in review the chief of the works left behind him by man from the earliest (lays of his existence to the dawn of historic times. We must still show prehistoric man in the presence of death, the universal destroyer, and learn from the evidence of the tombs of the remote past how our ancestors met the common doom. 1 On this point an admirable book should be consulted, by De la Noë: “Enceintes Préhistoriques,” _Mat_., 1888, p. 324, in which the author says that positions protected by escarpments bordering the greater party of the circumference of the _enceinte_ were at all times chosen for the erection of fortifications. The absence of water, however, often makes him hesitate in coming to a decision, and leads him to think that the remains where it is absent must have been temples for the worship of deities. 2 _Congrès Préhistoriques_, Brussels, 1872, p. 318. 3 “De Bello Gallico,” book vii., chap. xxiii. 4 Dupont: “Les Temps Préhistoriques en Belgique,” p. 235. 5 H. Bauduin: _Bul. Soc. Belge de Géographie_, 1879. 6 _Recueil des Travaux de la Société de l’Eure_, Évreux, 1879. 7 _Rev. d’Anth_., 1880, p. 469. 8 “Notice sur Quelques Monuments Trouvés sur le Sommet des Vosges” (_Soc. des Monuments Historiques de l’Alsace_, vol. i.). 9 _Rev. d’Anth_., 1880, p. 295. 10 We may also mention the Pen Richard in Charente Inférieure, so well described by Cartailhac in his “France Préhistorique,” p. 131. 11 Arcelin: “L’Âge de Pierre et la Classification Préhistorique,” Paris, 1873. Flouest: “Notice sur le Camp de Chassey.” Perrault: “Un Foyer de l’Âge de la Pierre Polie au Camp de Chassey” (_Mat_., 1870). Coynart: “Fouilles au Camp de Chassey” (_Rev. Arch_., 1866 and 1867). 12 Ponthieux, “Le Camp de Catenoy” (Oise). 13 “Hist. Francorum,” book i., chap. xxxii. 14 De Rosemont: “Étude sur les Antiquités antérieures aux Romains.” Desjardins: “Les Camps Retranchés des Environs de Nice.” Rivière: _Ass. Française_, Rheims, 1880, p. 628. 15 Pigorini: “Terramara dell’Eta del Bronzo Situata in Castione de’ Marchesi.” 16 _Nature_, 1887, second week, p. 62.