[51] Messrs. Pengelly and Vivian, resident at Torquay, acting members of the distinguished committee of exploration.
[52] See Reports of British Association, 1868, p. 57, and 1869, p. 199, by W. Pengelly, Esq., F.R.S.
[53] This is the popular name for them. They do not petrify the specimens placed in them, but only coat them with stalagmite.
[54] The resuming process has not yet been adopted by the modern Fuegians, for Dr. Hooker informs us that at the extreme south of Tierra del Fuego, and in mid-winter, he has often seen the men lying asleep in their wigwams, without a scrap of clothing, and the women standing naked, and some with children at their breasts, in the water up to their middles gathering limpets and other shell fish, while the snow fell thickly on them and on their equally naked babies.’—Sir J. Lubbock, ‘Prehistoric Times,’ p. 532. Jerome declares that he had himself seen the Attacotti, a British tribe, eating human flesh. See Gibbon (vol. iii. p. 270, ed. 1854), who in several passages refers to the practice among various British tribes of going naked, especially in war, citing Appian, Ammianus, and Giraldus Cambrensis as his authorities for British customs. It will be remembered that Cæsar speaks even of the Southern Britons as fighting ‘omnibus membris expediti.’
[55] ‘Report of British Association, 1869,’ p. 201.
[56] Nov. 21, 1870.
[57] A formation later than the Devonian, and earlier than the New Red Sandstone.
[58] Revelation x. 6, Authorised Version.
[59] See Mr. Pengelly’s paper on the subject in the Transactions of the Devonshire Association for 1868.
[60] ‘Acadian Geology,’ Dawson, p. 386.