SECOND DIVISION OF THE SUBJECT. 



PRIMITIVE MAN: II NEOLUHIC MAN. A Sketch 

 by the Rev. J. Magens Mello, M.A., F.G.S., &c. 



WHEN man first appeared in North Western and Central 

 Europe, he was a contemporary of a large and 

 remarkable fauna, the greater part of which is no longer in 

 existence in these regions of the earth ; some of the animals 

 of which it consisted, having become extinct, whilst others 

 have emigrated to other lands. Amongst the animals with 

 which man must iiave been familiar, were certainly two 

 species of elephants, one of these being the mammoth ; also 

 two species of rhinoceros were present in large numbers, 

 one of Avhich lived on to a comparatively late period in con- 

 junction with the mammoth. During the earlier part of this 

 age the hippopotamus was not unfrequently to be seen in 

 the rivers, even as far to the north as Yorkshire : the larger 

 carnivora also, lions, leopards, hyasnas, wolves, and bears 

 haunted the forests; whilst innumerable reindeer, horses, 

 and bisons, were preyed upon by them, and also furnished 

 man with food and probably with clothing. 



We call this age of the world's history the Pleistocene ;|it 

 is the latest of the great Geological ages, and as far as all 

 sound evidence goes it was during this age that man first 

 appeared. 



