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to associate himself with every existing fauna and 

 flora, even in modern times; and that the most 

 modern races have pitched their tents amid tree- 

 ferns and Proteaceas, and have hunted kangaroos 

 and emus. Further, when we consider that the pro- 

 ductions of the southern hemisphere are not only 

 more antique than those of the northern, but, on the 

 whole, less suited for the comfortable subsistence of 

 man and the animals most useful to him; and that 

 the Post-pliocene animals of the southern hemisphere 

 were of similar types with their modern successors, 

 we are the less inclined to believe that these regions 



would be selected as the cradle of the human race. 



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