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comparatively modern period, and in many parts are so still. 

 In Asia and Africa, on the contrary, as in Europe, stone 

 implements have, for the most part, been long abandoned. 

 Still there also, as, for instance, in Algeria and at the Cape, in 

 Palestine and Assyria, in India and Japan, stone implements 

 have been discovered, showing that these countries also, like 

 Europe, have, in all probability, passed through an age of 

 Stone. 



