Remember that the Drift is unfossiliferous and unstratified; that it fell _en masse_, and that these remains are found in its lower part, or _caught between it and the rocks below it_, and you can form a vivid picture of the sudden and terrible catastrophe. The trees were imbedded with man and the animals; the bones of men, smaller and more friable, probably perished, ground up in the tempest, while only their flint implements and the great bones of the larger animals, hard as stones, remain to tell the dreadful story. And yet some human bones [1. "Prehistoric Times," p. 366. 2. Ibid., pp. 366, 367.] {p. 124} have been found; a lower jaw-bone was discovered in a pit at Moulinguignon, and a skull and other bones were found in the valley of the Seine by M. Bertrand.[1] And these discoveries have not been limited to river-gravels. In the Shrub Hill gravel-bed in England, "_in the lowest part of it_, numerous flint implements of the palæolithic type have been discovered."[2] We have, besides these sub-drift remains, the skulls of men who probably lived before the great cataclysm,--men who may have looked upon the very comet that smote the world. They represent two widely different races. One is "the Engis skull," so called from the cave of Engis, near Liége, where it was found by Dr. Schmerling. "It is a fair average human skull, which might," says Huxley, "have belonged to a philosopher, or might have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage."[3] It represents a ### THE ENGIS SKULL. civilized, if not a cultivated, race of men. It may represent a victim, a prisoner, held for a cannibalistic feast or a trader from a more civilized region. [1. "Prehistoric Times," p. 360. 2. Ibid., p. 351. 3. "Man's Place in Nature," p. 156.] {p. 125} In another cave, in the Neanderthal, near Hochdale, between Düsseldorf and Elberfeld, a skull was found which is the most ape-like of all known human crania. The mail to whom it belonged must have been a barbarian brute of the rudest possible type. Here is a representation of it. ### THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL.