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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 Proteacege, 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. 



NOTE. Professor Boyd Dawkina in his work, "Early Man 

 in Britain," has thrown much light on the relations of the 

 Neocosmic men and the Bronze age with the Basques and 

 Etruscans (see Appendix). The more recent discoveries, both 

 in Europe and America, tend more and more to limit the 

 absolute antiquity of man, and to place his appearance in the 

 Post-glacial age. The recent measurements of the topogra- 

 phical survey of New York have shown that the recession of 

 the Falls of Niagara is so much more rapid than has hitherto 

 been supposed that the time since the glacial submergence at 

 that place cannot exceed 10,000 years and was probably nmch 

 less. 



