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which the writer has also insisted on, Dawkins deserves credit for fully elucidating, 
and he might have carried it farther to the identification of these same Iberians 
with the Berbers, the Guanches of the Canary Islands, and the Caribbean and 
other tribes of eastern and central America. On these hitherto dark subjects, 
light is now rapidly breaking, and we may hope that much of the present obscurity 
will soon be cleared away. 
Ancther curious point illustrated by Dawkins, with the aid of the recent 
re-discovery of the tin-mines of Tuscany, is the connection of the Etruscans with 
the introduction of the bronze age into central Europe. This, when viewed in 
relation to the probable ethnic affinities of the Etruscans with the ‘‘ Neolithic” 
and Iberian races, remarkably welds together the stone and bronze ages in Europe, 
and explains their intermixture and ‘‘ overlap” in the earlier lake habitations of 
Swizerland and elsewhere. 
We are also indebted to our author for a suggestion as to the linguistic con- 
nection of the Neocosmic and Modern periods, which is deserving the attention 
of philologists. He quotes from Abbé Inchaurpé, the following Basque words: 
CALZCOLE sn ——WINOKE = Stone lifted up or handled. 
Altsurra = Pick = Stone to tear asunder. 
Aizttoa —=Knife = Stone, little or small. 
Aizturrac = Scissors = Little stones for tearing. 
He remarks that all these words are derived from the word aéza, atcha, stone, 
though now applied to implements of metal. The same thing occurs in many 
American languages, in which the word for stone, with appropriate additions, is 
applied to different kinds of tools. It is also curious that in some of the American 
languages the word for stone is almost identical with that in Basque ; but this ap- 
plies to some other Basque roots as well. Still it is not unlikely that the onomat- 
opoietic sounds, zz, aiz and the like, applied to stones and cutting instruments in 
many languages, in all cases arose from the use of sharpened stones in cutting 
and rending. 
A still more important speculation arising from the facts recently developed 
as to prehistoric men is the possible equivalency with the historical deluge of the 
great subsidence which closed the residence of paleocosmic men in Europe, as 
well as that of several of the large mammalia. Lenormant and others have 
shown that the wide and ancient acceptance of the tradition of the deluge among 
all the great branches of the human family necessitates the belief that, inde- 
pendently of the biblical history, this great event must be accepted as an histor- 
ical fact which very deeply impressed itself upon the minds of all the early nations. 
Now, if the deluge is to be accepted as historical, and if a similar break interrupts 
the geological history of man, separating extinct races from those which still sur- 
vive, why may we not correlate the two. The misuse of the deluge in the early 
history of geology, in employing it to account for changes that took place long 
before the advent of man, certainly should not cause us to neglect its legitimate 
uses, when these arise in the progress of investigation. It is evident that if this 
