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THE CHAIN OF LIFE. 



But this position once attained in the original seats of the 

 species, the wide continents presented great facilities for their 

 movements, and there were ample stores of food for wandering 

 tribes subsisting by the chase. 



With such views the skeletons of the most ancient known 



Fig. 187. — Tooth of Elasmotherium, Grinding surface, natural size. Siberia. 



From Nature. 



men ^ fully accord. They indicate a people of great stature, of 

 powerful muscular development, especially in the lower limbs, 

 of large brain, indicating great capacity and resources (Fig. 

 188), but of coarse Turanian features, like those of the tribes 

 ^ As, for instance, those of Cro-Magnon, and Mentone, and Engis. 



