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at Ipswich. The details have been made so familiar to us 

 by the illustrated and other papers that it is unnecessary 

 to go into them, but before accepting such a date for the 

 existence of man in this country, it is desirable that the 

 evidence should be most carefully weighed and that it should 

 be clearly proved that it was not an interment in the boulder 

 clay, which at that point was only 4 feet in thickness. In 

 its important features the skeleton is of a modern type and 

 does not resemble the massive boned Neanderthal man. 

 Flint implements found in pre-glacial beds and supposed to 

 Jiave been made by pre-glacial man, seem to be usually of 

 such a character that no reliance can be placed on them as 

 being of human make and not shaped by natural causes. 

 Some teeth of a Palaeolithic man have been found in a cave 

 in Jersey. These are very thick and resemble those of the 

 Heidelberg and other early skeletons. A Neanderthal 

 skeleton has also been found at Quina in the department 

 of Charente, in France. Only about nine skulls, five or six of 

 which are associated with other parts of the skeletons, are 

 known of the Neanderthal race, and their rarity and interest 

 may be deduced from the fact that one incomplete and 

 broken skeleton was sold to a Berlin Museum for 8,000. 

 No very early remains of man have hitherto been found in 

 Australia, but recently, in New S. Wales, some black fellows' 

 ovens have been found under a covering of 18 feet of alluvium, 

 associated with remains of Diprotodon. The geological 

 date, however, seems to be a little uncertain. Excavations 

 at Corfu have revealed portions of a temple probably about 

 the 7th century B.C., and are also being made in various 

 places in Greece and the Greek Archipelago. At Meroe, in 

 Ethiopia, extensive explorations have uncovered great and 

 small temples, and many other buildings and tombs, and a 

 large number of pottery vases with paintings in colours 

 and embossing have been found, of a new type, not shewing 

 Egyptian influence. A Roman bronze bust twice life size, 

 perhaps of Augustus, has also been found, but as the Romans 

 are not known to have penetrated so far South it may have 



