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naturally led to ask if it is possible to estimate in figures this antiquity 

 of our species. We are obliged up to the present time to answer, No. 



Fig. 6. 



Sketch of Fossil Mammoth on ivory, found among Cave Relics. 



We can perfectly establish relative epochs ; but we cannot judge of 

 the number of years that each of these epochs represents. 



