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Portion of the skeleton of the fossil man of Mentone. Thi!> akeleton 

 was discovered by Dr. Riviere under about twenty feet of accumulated 

 d6bris. It belongs to the palaeocosmic age, and illustrates the high 

 type, physically, of the man of that period. The skeleton, like others 

 of that age, indicates a man of great stature and muscular vigor, and 

 with brain above the average size. [After Riviire.) , 



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