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FOSSIL MEN. 



diluvian catastrophe of the northern continents. The 

 men of this early age, if not properly " Palaeolithic," 

 were at least possibly antediluvian. 



Penetrating beyond the so- called. Palaeolithic period, 

 we find ourselves in the Post-pliocene or Glacial age of 

 geology, in the later part of which it seems evident 



Fig. 1. IMPLEMENTS OF CHIPPED STONE, EUEOPE. 

 (After Nilsson and others.) 



that nearly all the European land was under the_sea, 

 and the islands which remained were subject to a 

 climate almost arctic in its character. Here we lose 

 all traces of man ; and if he existed in this period, 

 it must have been in some of those portions of the 



