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FACTS AND FANCIES. 



the similarity, the Mentone man had an old 

 healed-up fracture of the radius of the left arm, 

 the effect of a violent blow or of a fall. Skulls 

 found at Clichy and Crenelle in 1868 and 1869 

 are described by Professor Broca and Mr. Fleu- 

 rens as of the same general type, and the re- 

 mains found at Gibraltar and in the cave of 

 Paviland, in England, seem also to have be- 

 longed to the same race. The celebrated En- 

 gis skull, believed to have belonged to a con- 

 temporary of the mammoth, is also precisely of 

 the same type, though less massive than that of 

 Cro-magnon ; and, lastly, even the somewhat 

 degraded Neanderthal skull, found in a cave 

 near Dusseldorf, though, like that of Clichy, in- 

 ferior in frontal development, is referable to the 

 same peculiar long-headed style of man, in so 

 far as can be judged from the portion that re- 

 mains. 



Let it be observed, then, that these skulls 

 are probably the oldest known in the world, 

 and they are all referable to one race of men ; 

 and let us ask what they tell as to the posi- 

 tion and character of palaeolithic man. The tes- 

 timony is here fortunately wellnigh unanimous. 

 Huxley, who well compares some of the pecu- 

 liar features of these ancient skulls and skele- 



