ANTIQUITY OF MAN. 239 



It has been remarked that Palasocosinic man does 

 not seem to have penetrated into Scandinavia, and I 

 believe the same may be affirmed of the north of Scot- 

 land, Ireland, and other regions of northern Europe. 

 Whether this has arisen from the continuance of gla- 

 cial cold in these regions, or from other causes, we 

 can only conjecture. The point has been discussed 

 by Dr. Torell in a very interesting paper, in which he 

 investigates the various discoveries of pre-historic 

 remains in Sweden, with their probable ages.* 



Torell arranges the later formations of Sweden in 

 three great groups. The first includes the Glacial and 

 Post-glacial formations, the second the Transition be- 

 tween the Glacial and the Modern periods, and the 

 third the Eecent deposits. The first contains the 

 boulder clay, and the overlying clays and sands, with 

 marine shells and a few plants of arctic types. The 

 second consists of gravel terraces and superficial clay, 

 and gravel of the plains. The third consists of elevated 

 sea beaches, with modern shells, freshwater alluvia, 

 and peat bogs. The latter contain remains of some 

 quadrupeds now extinct in Sweden, as the aurochs, 

 the bison, and the wild boar. 



After a careful resume of all the alleged discoveries 

 of remains and works of man in these beds, he con- 

 cludes that human remains are confined to the recent 

 deposits, and that there is no evidence of anything 

 older than the age of polished stone. In other words, 

 in Sweden, as in America, man is contemporaneous 



* "Compte-rendu du Congres Archseologique de Stockholm." 



