Fish were often represented, and in one place the form of a large lizard was sketched out with tolerable accuracy.

On the top of one of the hills, the figure of a man in the attitude usually assumed by them when they begin to dance, was executed in a still superior style.

That the arts of imitation and amusement, should thus in any degree precede those of necessity, seems an exception to the rules laid down by theory for the progress of invention.

But perhaps it may better be considered as a proof that the climate is never so severe as to make the provision of covering or shelter a matter of absolute necessity.

Had these men been exposed to a colder atmosphere, they would doubtless have had clothes and houses, before they attempted to become sculptors.
In all the country hitherto explored, the parties have seldom gone a quarter of a mile without seeing trees which had been on fire.