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. THE EARTH RECEIVES HER KINO. 



THE ADVENT OF MAN. 



AT some juncture in the progress of these later events, 

 man made his first appearance on the earth. He was not 

 present during Tertiary periods, in any portion of the world 

 which has been subjected to research. There appears to have 

 been no European Tertiary man, and no American Tertiary 

 man. This conclusion is now almost universally accepted. 



But both in America and Europe, man seems to have been 

 present during a portion of the Glacial Epoch. American 

 man dwelt in California. Along the Pacific coast, as I stated 

 in Talk XL VII, a milder climate prevented the prevalence 

 of universal glaciers. The situation, therefore, may have 

 been as favorable for human occupation as that in our day, 

 at the foot of the glaciated valleys of Switzerland. The 

 human remains of California, however, are found in situations 

 which at first excite our wonder; for they lie in the deep 

 placers underneath great tables of ancient lava (Talk XVI, 

 end). These lava-sheets, in the judgment of Professor J. D. 

 Whitney, were erupted in the latter part of the Pliocene 

 Epoch ; and if so, man was a Tertiary resident on the Pacific 

 coast. This opinion, I have myself been disposed heretofore, 

 to adopt. (Preadamites, pp. 426-428). Every thing depends 

 on the epoch of the lava eruption. That would be given, if 

 the other fossil remains of the deep placers afforded unques- 

 tionable criteria of age. Professor Whitney thinks they do. 

 In his report on California he says: "The beds which were 

 deposited prior to the great volcanic disturbance and conse- 

 quent overflow of lava throughout the Sierra, inclose a pecu- 

 liar fauna which we refer to the Pliocene epoch, and which 

 appears to have some analogy with the group of the same 

 age occurring on the Niobrara and White Kivers and in their 

 vicinity, to the east of the Rocky Mountain chain." "Among 

 the animals of the Pliocene of California, or the group which 

 preceded the epoch of volcanic activity, we recognize the 



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