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mergence, we cannot be too thankful that there were 

 so intelligent witnesses to preserve the record of the 

 event for our information. 



It is needless, then, to enter into further details, 

 though these are sufficient to fill volumes if desired, 

 in proof of the remarkable convergence of history and 

 geological discovery on the great Flood, which now 

 constitutes one of the most remarkable illustrations 

 of the points of contact of science proceeding on its 

 own methods of investigation and Divine revelation, 

 preserving the records of ancient events otherwise 

 ost or buried under accretions of myth and fancy. 

 I have already endeavoured to show that the earliest 

 race of palaeocosmic men, that of Canstadt, very fairly 

 corresponds with what may have been the character 

 istics of the ruder tribes of Cainites, and that if we 

 regard the Truchere skull as representing the Sethite 

 people, we may suppose the Cro-magnon race to re- 

 present the giants, or Nephelim,who sprung from the 

 union of the two pure types. I have also referred to 

 the possibility that the Truchere race, so little known 

 to us as yet, may have been a prot- Iberian people, 

 possessing even before the Flood domestic animals, 

 agriculture, and some of the arts of life, corresponding 

 to what we find in the earliest postdiluvian nations. 

 This is, indeed, implied in the fact that the postdilu- 

 vian nations present themselves to us at once with a 

 somewhat advanced condition of the arts, especially 

 in Chaldea and in Egypt. Such possibilities may serve 

 to suggest to speculative archaeologists that they 



