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it could be pi-oved that the Eskimo descended from a race which 

 inhabited the Polai- Regions in the very earliest times, we should be 

 obliged to assume that there was a Northern (Polar) as well as 

 Asiatic cradle of the human race, which would open up new fields of 

 res'^arch both to the philologist and to the ethnologist, and probably 

 remnants of the culture and language of the original race might be 

 traced in the present Polar inhabitants of both Europe and Asia." 

 The culture of the Eskimo, according to Xordenskiold, proved a 

 gradual development through ages whilst tliey had no contact with 

 other i-aces. 



The Eskimo, being " the only pojiulation indubitably common to 

 the two worlds, the Old and the New," it may not, therefore, 

 seem strange that some should have seen in them not recent im- 

 migrants into America from the neighbouring Asiatic continent, 

 but kinsmen, perhaps, descendants of the hunters of the Caves and 

 River Drift cf the Palaeolithic period in Europe, who have left 

 marked traces of their sojourn in Britain, in France and elsewhere in 

 Western Europe. Prof Boyd Dawkins, in 1866,^ was the tirst to 

 suggest a possible connection between the man of the river drift and 

 the Arctic tribes of America. In his svibseqiient works - he has set 

 forth his views at greater length and with consideraljle force of argu- 

 ment. His views have to a considerable extent been accepted by Sir 

 John Lubbock,^ Dr. Beddoe,* and other European scientists, while the 

 companion theory which (as advanced by Dr. C. C. Abbot ' ) identifies 

 the Eskimo with the palaeolithic man of the Delaware river in New 

 Jersey has been received in America. Dr. Geikie" and Robt. Ellis ^ 

 call for further evidence before giving in their adhesion to the 

 theory of Prof. B^yd D iwkins. Prof. Flower* (who lojks on the 

 Eskimo as a branch of the N'orbh Asiatic M )ngols) and Dr. Jno. Rae," 

 think they are " in no way related to the ancient cave men." A. H. 

 Keane,^" noting the difference in skull, type, etc., between the 



1. Eskimo in the south of Gaul. Saturday Review, Dec. 8, 1886. 



2. Cave Hunting, 1874, p. .S55-9, Early Man in Europe, 1880, p. 203. 

 8. Prehistoric Tinaes, 1870, p. 3.59. 



4. Stature and Bulk of Man in Britain. 



». Peab. Mus. Report- II. p. 25. cf. Prof. E. W. Claypole in Trans. Eainb. Geol. Soo. Vol. V. 

 p. iii. 1887. p 441. 



6. Prehistoric Europe, p. 547-9. 



7. Sources of the Basque and Etruscan Languages, 1886, p. 49, Note. 



8. 9. .Tourn. Anthr. Inst. Gt. Brit, and Ire. Nov. 1886, p. 200. 

 10. The Lapps, .Journ. Anthr. Inst. .\v. p. 321. 



