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slow, again giving us some very slight idea of the vast 

 time required to account for geological phenomena. 



Animal life during this glacial period was extra- 

 ordinary. The hairy mammoth and the woolly rhino- 

 ceros roamed over Europe and were driven south as the 

 cold increased. The reindeer and Arctic fox travelled 

 as far south as the Pyrenees. And then, when the 

 glacial climate became modified to a warm climate, the 

 leopard, the lion, the African elephant and hippopota- 

 mus, appeared to occupy the region which was that of r 

 apparently, eternal snow, and so, by oscillations in 

 climate from extreme cold to heat, would appear a 

 corresponding immigration and emigration of northern 

 and southern types. 



All is in a state of change eternal change. And 

 these changes are particularly shown in Britain, Scan- 

 dinavia, Germany., France, Belgium, Russia, North 

 America, and Australia. 



Subsequently the climate and the earth's surface 

 more nearly approach the condition in which we now 

 find things, and we enter what geologists term, 



THE RECENT OR HUMAN PERIOD OF THE STONE 



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Ice still exists, but it is departing, and now man 

 appears upon the scene. He has not left much of the 

 remains of his body. Flint implements, at first rudely 

 chipped, subsequently polished, and then metal imple- 

 ments of peace and war are found. The earlier instru- 

 ments are found in caves associated with extinct animal 

 life. Remains of the work of man are found with some 

 of the later phases of the Ice age. It is needless to go 

 into the detail of the appearance of Man upon the face 



