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Neanderthal skull ; and I may add, that the wide 

 differences in height between the skulls of 

 different tribes of Australians afford a parallel to 

 the differences in altitude between the skulls of 

 the men of Spy and those of the grave rows of 

 North Germany. Neanderthaloid features are to 

 be met with, not only in ancient long skulls ; 

 those of the ancient broad-headed people entombed 

 at Borreby in Denmark have been often noted. 



Reckoned by centuries, the remoteness of the 

 quaternary, or pleistocene, age from our own is 

 immense, and it is difficult to form an adequate 

 notion of its duration. Undoubtedly there is an 

 abysmal difference between the Neanderthaloid race 

 and the comely living specimens of the blond long- 

 heads with whom we are familiar. But the abyss 

 of time between the period at which North Europe 

 was first covered with ice, when savages pursued 

 mammoths and scratched their portraits with 

 sharp stones in central France, and the present 

 day, ever widens as we learn more about the 

 events which bridge it. And, if the differences 

 between the Neanderthaloid men and ourselves 

 could be divided into as many parts as that time 

 contains centuries, the progress from part to part 

 would probably be almost imperceptible. 



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