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Iniman remains have been found at Hoxne, Rempart Hill, Bury 

 St. Edmonds, in Suffolk ; at Hornell Bay, Reculvers, Scroll Cliff 

 near Whiteside, in Kent; at Bedford, in Bedfordshire; and at 

 Rosemarsh, in Surrey. In all these localities, flint implements 

 are found in beds of gravel, associated with the bones of the 

 same animals as in France. Implements, with bits of charcoal, 

 and bones of extinct animals, have been found in caves at 

 Palermo, in Sicily; Kostrich, in the Alps; Bixham, in Devon- 

 shire, England ; Kent's Noll, Torquay, England ; and Kirkdale, 

 Yorkshire, England. They Avere found in beds of bone breccia, 

 or limestone, cemented with fragments of bone. The same kind 

 of implements have been found in the river .bottoms of England, 

 and in the alluvial soil of the Nile in Egypt. In America, the 

 works of man have been dug from beds of gravel, from twelve 

 to eighty feet beneath the surface, in various places in Califor- 

 nia, on the banks of Cooper river, Georgia, and in the buried 

 mines of Utah, New and Old Mexico, in Michigan, and at Aux 

 Cayes, St. Domingo. The bones of man, petrified, have been 

 found in the iron mines in Sweden, in peat bogs in England and 

 Scotland, in buried cities in Italy, in beds of iron ore in Virginia, 

 and in beds of limestone in the island of Guadaloupe. From 

 the mass of evidence collected upon this subject, geologists have, 

 with great uniformity, agreed that man is of recent origin ; but 

 how recent, at exactly what epoch he made his appearance, has 

 not been satisfactorily determined. The order of geological 

 epochs, connected with the grand developments of animal life, 

 are well settled; but the respective ages of each, as compared 

 with any unit of time in any chronology known to man, has not 

 been ascertained. Human remains, and implements of the chase, 

 of war, of cooking, and for either purposes, found in the beds of 

 gravel, either bring the time of the Drift Era forward in the 

 order of time, or carry man, in his mundane birth, as many ages 

 backward, in the great procession of living beings which have, 

 in successive ages, appeared upon the theatre of life, sported 

 their allotted term of existence, and with their exit, given room 

 and place for newer and higher orders. But whether we give 

 man an older or a later time for his birth-date, the grand geolo- 

 gical truth remains, that he appeared in the last day of creation, 

 when the earth was clothed in verdure and beauty, stored with 

 minerals and treasures, and fully prepared for pleasures, uses, 

 and economies. 



