8o GEOLOGY AND HISTORY 



be peculiar, and would indicate a frugivorous rather 

 than a carnivorous mode of life, and less of rude 

 power than that evidenced by the Canstadt and Cro- 

 magnon races. 



Of the latter, though both are of the same faunal 

 period, and therefore geologically contemporaneous, 

 the former, the lower of the two in point of physical 

 development, is apparently in Western Europe the 

 older, and represents the earlier part of the mammoth 

 age, when the climate had become cooler and Elephas 

 primigenius had succeeded to E. antiquus. The Cro- 

 magnon race, beginning in this period, goes on to the 

 close of the mammoth age, which, as already stated, 

 coincides with the reindeer age of the French arch- 

 aeologists. This Cro-magnon race I am disposed to 

 regard as a mixed or half- breed tribe, produced by the 

 union of the Canstadt peoples with the higher race 

 already hinted at. This last may possibly be repre- 

 sented by a few skulls more resembling those of the 

 men of the neanthropic age, which are occasionally 

 found in the burials of the Cro-magnon people, and 

 of which that found at Truchere has been already 

 referred to. 



We have thus traces of two primitive or ante- 

 diluvian races, one probably mild and subsisting on 

 vegetable food, and another fierce, rude and car- 

 nivorous, perhaps a product of degeneracy of the 

 former; and a third, or mixed race, of greater physical 

 power and energy than either of the others. This is 

 of course merely a hypothetical reading of the facts, 



