CHAPTER II 



STRATA AND LAND SURFACES — TEETH AND 

 BONES — EXTINCT MEN — FLINT IMPLE- 

 MENTS — THE MAMMOTH, ELEPHANTS AND 

 MASTODON — CLASSIFICATION OF ANIMALS 



BEFORE giving you further accounts of 

 extinct animals, I wish to point out to 

 3^ou that what I have to say is true, and not 

 mere imagination. 



Some people talk about the '' fairy tales of 

 science. ' ' There never was a more inappropriate 

 phrase : it is altogether wrong to speak of 

 fairy tales having anything to do with science. 

 The wonderful things which science reveals to 

 us are altogether remote from fairy tales, 

 for in regard to the tales of science you can 

 test what you are told, you can see the 

 things of which I speak, you can ascertain the 

 truth of what is asserted. That is the great 

 pleasure of this study ; one knows that the 

 things one examines, however astounding and 



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