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FACTS AND FANCIES. 



in their characters with the Mentone skull, 

 and others with those of Cro-magnon, En- 

 gis, and Neanderthal ; and so like are some 

 of the Huron, Iroquois, and other northern 

 American skulls to these ancient European 

 relics and others of their type, that it would 

 be difficult to affirm that they might not have 

 belonged to near relatives. On the other 

 hand, the smaller and shorter heads of the 

 race of the reindeer age in Europe may be 

 compared with the Laps, and with some of the 

 more delicately formed Algonquin and Chippe- 

 wayan skulls in America. If, therefore, the 

 reader desires to realize the probable aspect 

 of the men of Cro-magnon, of Mentone, or 

 of Engis, I may refer him to modern 

 American heads. So permanent is this great 

 Turanian race, out of which all the other 

 races now extant seem to have been developed, 

 in the milder and more hospitable regions of 

 the Old World, while in northern Asia and in 

 America it has retained to this day its primitive 

 characters. 



The reader, reflecting on what he has 

 learned from history, may be disposed here 

 to ask, Must we suppose Adam to have been 

 one of these Turanian men, like old men of 



