NOTES GEOLOGICAI. AND ANTIQUARIAN 



The late Duke of Argyle asserted that Egypt displayed 

 from the earliest times no indication whatever of a Stone 

 Age, but reached a high civilization at once. Huxley 

 pointed out to him the erroneousness of this statement, and 

 the Duke admitted he was mistaken and was compelled to 

 withdraw it as is stated in The Warfare of Science. 



The writer remarks even already, when criticized for 

 inaccurate and reckless statements, some few of the speak- 

 ers at the meeting protest that the reports misrepresented 

 what they actually said. Perhaps the imported Professor 

 of the Boston University may also deny he uttered the 

 words we find recorded in The Globe, a Toronto paper. 

 ** It has been claimed by many Scientists that man has been 

 on earth for periods variously estimated at from two hun- 

 dred thousand years to eight or nine million years. The 

 foremost scientists after investigations admitted that human 

 life came after the Glacial period, and that this Glacial 

 period occurred at from seven thousand to twelve thousand 

 years ago." 



Now, with the single exception of the late Sir W. 

 Dawson, of late years I have never known any leading 

 Geologist to publish his belief that man first appeared on 

 earth at or near the close of the Glacial Age. But if our 

 ancient lake beach known as Burlington Heights (formed 

 since the Glacial period, overlying its deposits) was raised 

 in twelve thousand years, the writer would simply look on 

 it as just as miraculous as the Hebrew tales of Jonah's 

 whale, or Joshua's arresting the sun in its course. 



There ma}^ be some truth in what the speaker men- 

 tioned, namely : The secular press of the city (Toronto) 

 gave more space to a dog-fight than they would give to a 

 bible conference — if the statement proves true (we doubt it 

 however), the newspapers there appear to have formed a 

 more correct estimate of the orators than the large audience 

 the various churches brought together, which, we were in- 

 formed, were in entire sympathy with the speaker. 



