Chap. VII. THE KACES OF MAN. 237 



Ancient monuments and stone implements found in 

 all parts of the world, of which no tradition is pre- 

 served by the present inhabitants, indicate much 

 extinction. Some small and broken tribes, remnants 

 of former races, still survive in isolated and gene- 

 rally mountainous districts. In Europe the ancient 

 races were all, according to Schaaffhausen, 28 " lower in 

 " the scale than the rudest living savages ; " they must 

 therefore have differed, to a certain extent, from any 

 existing race. The remains described by Professor 

 Broca 29 from Les Eyzies, though they unfortunately 

 appear to have belonged to a single family, indicate a 

 race with a most singular combination of low or simious 

 and high characteristics, and is "entirely different 

 " from any other race, ancient or modern, that we have 

 " ever heard of." It differed, therefore, from the qua- 

 ternary race of the caverns of Belgium. 



Unfavourable physical conditions appear to have had 

 but little effect in the extinction of races. 30 Man has 

 long lived in the extreme regions of the North, with 

 no wood wherewith to make his canoes or other imple- 

 ments, and with blubber alone for burning and giving 

 him warmth, but more especially for melting the snow. 

 In the Southern extremity of America the Fuegians 

 survive without the protection of clothes, or of any 

 building worthy to be called a hovel. In South Africa 

 the aborigines wander over the most arid plains, where 

 dangerous beasts abound. Man can withstand the 

 deadly influence of the Terai at the foot of the Hima- 

 laya, and the pestilential shores of tropical Africa. 



58 Translation in ' Anthropological Eeview,' Oct. 1S68, p. 431. 



29 ' Transact. Internat. Congress of Prehistoric Arch.' 1868, p. 172- 

 175. See also Broca (translation) in ' Anthropological Kcview,' Oct. 

 1868, p. 410. 



30 Dr. Gerland ' Ueber das Aussterben der Natnrvolkcr/ 1868, s. 82. 



