[PLATE LXIX., Fig.

1.] [Illustration: PLATE 69] [Illustration: PLATE 70] It is difficult to do justice to the animal delineation of this period.
without reproducing before the eye of the reader the entire series of reliefs and drawings which belong to it.

It is the infinite variety in the attitudes, even more than the truth and naturalness of any particular specimens, that impresses us as we contemplate the series.
Lions, wild asses, dogs, deer, wild goats, horses, are represented in profusion: and we scarcely find a single form which is repeated.

Some specimens have been already given, as the hunted stag and hind [PLATE XXVII.] and the startled wild ass [PLATE XXVI.] Others will occur among the illustrations of the next chapter.

For the present it may suffice to draw attention to the spirit of the two falling asses in the illustration [PLATE LXIX., Fig.