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across the grassy glades. Ehinoceroses roamed through the 

 thickets. Hippopotamuses swam and plunged in the rivers ; and 

 countless herds of buffaloes, deer, and wild horses scoured the 

 plains. Along with these there flourished, in great numbers, 

 northern animals, such as the reindeer, musk-ox, glutton, 

 and lemming, which all lived side by side with the hipjDopotamus. 



It is in this post-glacial period, that man first appears in 

 Great Britain,^" having left his implements in the river- gravels 

 and in the caves of North Wales, Derbyshire, ^^ and Devonshire. 

 So far as man is concerned, this era is called the Palaeolithic 

 Period, because, during its entire duration, man is supposed to 

 have used only roughly chipped flint and other stone weapons, 

 and to have been cjiiite ignorant of the art of grinding or polish- 

 ing his stone implements. This supposition, however, seems now 

 to be breaking down. So many beautifully polished bone-pins 

 and harjDoons have been foung amongst the relics of Palaeolithic 

 man in the caverns of France, England, Belgium and Switzer- 

 land, that it is most improbable that Palaeolithic man who 

 could polish his hojie implements so perfectly, should be unable to 

 polish his stone weapons in a similar manner.^^ A polished stone 

 hatchet was, some time ago, found in Palaeolithic gravel at 

 Maldon,-^ and similar implements of polished stone have been 

 discovered, associated with the remains of Palaeolithic animals, in 

 the caves of Eolland, Eancogne, and Mouthiers, in the depart- 

 ment of Charente in Central France.^* Clearly, then, we ought 

 not hastily to declare that man did not polish his stone imple- 

 ments and weapons during the Palaeolithic Period. 



Did Palaeolithic man live in Cornwall ? I believe that he 

 did, but I am not acquainted with any direct evidence of his 

 presence here. It is difficult to estimate the value of the numer- 



20. I am vuiable to accept the theories which state that man is Inter-Glacial, 

 or Pre-Glacial in Great Britain. 



21. Caves of Cresswell Crags. These are described by Professor W. Boyd 

 Dawkins in Early Man in Britain, pp. 175, 187. 



22. An examination of the figures of these bone implements, as portrayed in 

 the beautiful plates of Reliqtiia; Acquitanicce, will bring home to everyone the full 

 force of this argument. 



23. The Ancient Stone Implements of Great Britain, by Sir John Bvans. 

 (second editionj p. 136. 



24. Memoirs sur Les Restes <V Industrie appartenant aiix temps pri^nordiatix , 

 dans le Departement de la Charente, by A. T. Rochebrune, pp. 42, 47, 49. 



