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which he left behind, to have wandered over the 

 whole of France, and to have hunted the same ani- 

 mals in the valley of the Loire and the Garrone, as 

 in the valley of the Thames. In the Iberian penin- 

 sula he was also a contemporary of the African ele- 

 phant, the mammoth, and the straight-tusked ele- 

 phant, and he occupied the neighborhood both of 

 Madrid and Lisbon. He also ranged over Italy, 

 leaving traces of his presence in the Abruzzo, and in 

 Greece he was a contemporary of the extinct pygmy 

 hippopotamus (H. Pentlandi). South of the Med- 

 iterranean his implements have been met with in 

 Oran, and near Kolea in Algeria, and in Egypt in 

 several localities. At Luxor they have been discov- 

 ered by General Pitt-Rivers in the breccia, out of 

 which are hewn the tombs of the kings. In Palestine, 

 they have been obtained by the Abbe Richard be- 

 tween Mount Tabor and the Sea of Tiberias; and 

 by Mr. Stopes between Jerusalem and Bethlehem. 

 Throughout this wide area the implements, for the 

 most part of flint or of quartzite, are of the same rude 

 types, and there is no difference to be noted between 

 the hatchets found in the caves of Cresswell in Derby- 

 shire and those of Thebes, or between those of the 

 valley of the Somme and those of Palestine. The 

 River-drift hunter ranged over the Indian peninsula 

 from Madras as far north as the valley of the Ner- 

 budda. Here we find him forming part of a fauna in 

 which are species now living in India, such as the 

 Indian rhinoceros and the arnee, and extinct types 

 of oxen and elephants. There are two extinct hip- 

 popotami in the rivers, and living gavials, turtles, and 



