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EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. 



[CHAP. in. 



a second, with small upright antlers of a shape unlike 

 any living species (Fig. 9), flourished in France and 

 probably also in Spain. 



The plains of Pikermi, then stretching southwards 



from the rocky mountains of 

 Attica far into the area now 

 covered by the Mediterranean, 

 supported countless troops of 

 antelopes, varying in size and 

 form, and, for the most part, 

 allied to those of Africa ; one, 

 the Helladotherium, was of 

 large size and allied to the 

 giraffe ; this last animal was 

 also present. Numerous apes 

 (Mesopithecus) inhabited the 

 woods, intermediate in char- 

 acter between the Semnopi- 

 thecus on the one hand, and 

 the Macacus or Barbary ape 

 on the other, being related to 

 the one in the form of its 

 head, and to the other in the 

 length of its limbs. A large 

 ape also has been met with 

 at Eppelsheim. Thus in the 



FIG. 9. Cervus Matheroni, Gervais, upper Meiocene age the range 



of the Quadrumana extended 



from the shores of the Mediterranean, at least as far 

 to the north as 49 43' north latitude, or 14 farther 

 north beyond the present northern limit of the old 

 world apes. 



The Edentata (sloths, ant-eaters, etc.) also were repre- 



