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part of men. The survivors were of the old and 

 unmodified stock, and it was they who repeopled 

 the new world, finding possibly here and there some 

 survivors of the former population, or themselves 

 locally relapsing into a similar state, in this case 

 all the seeming paradoxes and contradictions which 

 have perplexed archaeologists would be easily ex- 

 plained. We might even find occasional captives of 

 the primitive small race among the interments of the 

 old giants, and we might find new races of superior 

 physical power arising in the new world and again 

 intruding on the feebler race. 



In closing our notice of this period we may pro- 

 ceed to connect it with actual history in the British 

 Islands. When the Romans invaded Britain they 

 found in it two races of men physically very distinct, 

 one of them the aborigines, who had made their way 

 to the island as its first population after the close of 

 the mammoth age, the others apparently a later 

 intrusion. They are known to English antiquaries 

 from their modes of burial as the men of the long and 

 the round barrows or funeral mounds. The first of 

 these are beyond doubt the kinsmen of our little 

 men of the Trou de Frontal, in Belgium. They are 

 thus described by Greenwcll and Taylor 1 : 



They were of feeble build, short stature, dark 

 complexion, and somewhat long skull. They buried 

 their dead in long barrows or mounds with interior 

 chambers and passages ; some of these are as much as 



1 Greenwell, British Barrows ; Taylor, Orgin of the Aryans. 



