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Neanderthaloid characters appear in skulls of other 

 races. If these characters belong to a stage in 

 the development of the human species, antecedent 

 to the differentiation of any of the existing races, 

 we may expect to find them in the lowest of these 

 races, all over the world, and in the early stages of 

 all races. I have already referred to the remark- 

 able similarity of the skulls of certain tribes of na- 

 tive Australians to the Neanderthal skull; and I 

 may add, that the wide differences in height be- 

 tween the skulls of different tribes of Australians 

 afford a parallel to the differences in altitude be- 

 tween the skulls of the men of Spy and those of the 

 grave rows of North Germany. Neanderthaloid 

 features are to be met with, not only in ancient 

 long skulls; those of the ancient broad-headed peo- 

 ple entombed at Borreby in Denmark, have been 

 often noted. 



Eeckoncd by centuries, the remoteness of the 

 quaternary, or pleistocene, age from our own is 

 immense, and it is difficult to form an adequate 

 notion of its duration. Undoubtedly there is an 

 abysmal difference between the Neanderthaloia 

 race and the comely living specimens of the blond 

 long-heads with whom we arc familiar. But the 

 abyss of time between the period at which North 

 Europe was first covered with ice, when savages 

 pursued mammoths and scratched their portraits 

 with sharp stones in central France, and the pres- 

 ent day, ever widens as we learn more about the 



