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woolly rhinoceros and his contemporaries, or in now 

 temperate climates, those of the reindeer. 



(4) The remains themselves may indicate a race 

 or races of men and a condition of the arts of life" 

 different from any known in the region in historic 

 times, Thus we may have skulls and skeletons 

 indicating men racially distinct from any now extant, 

 and implements and weapons different from those in 

 use in the times of history or tradition. 



We have now to consider what evidence of this 

 kind vindicates the assertion that man existed on our 

 continents in the second continental or post-glacial 

 age, or, -as others will have it, in the closing period 01 

 the glacial age, and was contemporary with the 

 mammoth and other great beasts now extinct. This 

 evidence, which has been accumulating with great 

 rapidity and relates to many parts of the northern 

 hemisphere, is too voluminous to be reproduced here. 1 

 But a few examples of it may be given, more especially 

 from parts of the old world whose history extends 

 farthest back and where explorations have been most 

 extensive. 



My first instance shall be one originally described 

 by Canon Tristram, and which I had an opportunity 

 to examine in 1884 the caverns or rock shelters in 

 the face of the limestone cliff of the pass of Nahr-el- 



1 Reference may be made to Christy and Lartet, Reliquiae Aqui- 

 tanica ; Quatrefages, Homme Fossile ; Dupont, UHomme pendant 

 les Ages de Pierre ; Catthaillac, La France Prehistorique ; Dawkins, 

 Cave Hunting and Early Man in Britain ; Fossil Men and Modern 

 Science in Bible Lands, by the author. 



