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words, the prevalent or universal type of the people of 

 the Eastern or Eurasian continent must have been 

 that which we now call Turanian or American. In 

 America the local varieties and more or less cultured 

 members of this great race had again and again re- 

 placed each other over wide regions, so that the same 

 varieties of Dolichocephalic and Brachycephalic races, 

 and the same ages of Stone and Bronze, recognised 

 in Europe, with the addition of an intermediate age of 

 native Copper, could have been made up by the anti- 

 quary, did we not know that they were contemporary, 

 and that over wide areas, almost equalling the whole 

 of Europe, the age of Copper and of civilization pre - 

 ceded that of barbarism. 



May this not, then, be an American epitome of 

 pre-historic Europe ? Simple and industrious colonists 

 spreading themselves over new lands : barbarous and 

 migratory tribes and families wandering from the 

 centres of civilization over the untilled wastes, and 

 then recoiling in successive waves on the more culti- 

 vated tribes with rude and desolating violence. So 

 the struggle of opposing races would go on from 

 century to century, strewing the land with strange 

 and unaccountable traces of semi-civilization and 

 barbarism the forests growing over them and river 

 floods sweeping them away and depositing them in 

 unlikely places, until Eome did for Europe what 

 Europe has been doing for America ; and then in both 

 cases the pre-historic ages recede into dim obscurity, 

 and under the manipulation of the archaeologist may 



