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antlers, would call to mind a similar practice still in 

 vogue, among the kindred pagan tribes in the Arctic 

 regions, where elk and reindeer horns invariably deco- 

 rate the tumuli of the dead, and would substantiate the 

 inference, that the lost herbivoras here mentioned, in- 

 cluding a rhinoceros, were still existing at a time when 

 the people in question were already settled in Southern 

 Europe. 



From the foregoing observations, we have no grounds 

 for objecting to the coexistence of man with departed 

 species, and we may naturally expect his debris to be- 

 come more abundant, in proportion as the others are 

 less numerous, and will contain an increasing number 

 of the last extinguished, or of such as are still in 

 being: Ruminants, among which may be reckoned 

 Urus, Bison, Elk, Reindeer, Sheep; and Carnivora, 

 more particularly Bears, Felinae, and wild Canidae, 

 whereof the Wolf is among 'the latest. 



We have adduced the foregoing facts and inferences, 

 not so much to establish the implied dependence that 

 should be placed upon them singly, but as inducements 

 for the general reader to bear them in mind as a whole, 

 without which the conditions of human life, in a 

 primeval state, such as man's distribution and earliest 

 migrations, cannot be fairly reviewed. Thus much we 

 have deemed necessary, foregoing, at the same time, 

 to search beyond the later age of the great pachyder- 

 mous distribution. 



In a mental physiological retrospect, we might per- 



