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the great diluvial cataclysm which separates the 

 human or anthropic period into two parts may have 

 left an indelible mark in the history or tradition of 

 mankind. We shall inquire into this in the sequel, 

 but must first consider what geological monuments 

 remain of the early neanthropic age in Europe. 1 



In the meantime I may remark that, if we take 

 the Canstadt people to represent the ruder tribes of 

 the antediluvian Cainites, the feebler folk of Truchere 

 to represent the Sethites, and the giant race of Cro- 

 magnon and Mentone as the equivalent of the ' mighty 

 men ' or Nephelim of Genesis who arose from the 

 mixture of the two original stocks, we shall have a 

 somewhat exact parallel between the men of the caves 

 and gravels and those we have so long been familiar 

 with in the Book of Genesis. 



1 A valuable paper by Dawkins ' On the relation of the Palaeo- 

 lithic to the Neolithic Period,' reaches me when correcting the proof 

 of this volume. (Reprint from Journal of Anthropological Society^ 

 February 1894.) 



