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guage foreign to the Indo-Germanic stocky its customs and 

 manners^ has been preserved in that corner of the globe which 

 it still inhabits. We are almost tempted to ask whether, 

 instead of that supposed emigration from Asia and Europe to 

 America, we might not rather assume an emigration from 

 America to the Bay of Biscay, perhaps by way of the connect- 

 ing land between Florida and our own continent, which is now 

 submerged in the sea, but which, according to all probability. 



Fig. 119. Skull of Borreby, side view. 



was at least in the middle tertiary (miocene) period still above 

 water. 



For my own part, I have arrived at the conclusion that the 



" I conclude, hence, that in searching' for the origin of the Basques out of 

 the Basque country, their ancestors will be found neither among the Celts, 

 nor the rest of the Indo-European nations, but that our investigations must 

 be directed towards Northern Africa. Europe was at a remote period, no 

 doubt, connected with Africa ; we need, therefore, not feel surprised to iind 

 affinities between the primitive inhabitants of both parts of the world, even 

 if it were not known that many migrations had, in ancient times, taken 

 place across the Straits of Gibraltar." 



I would add to this last hypothesis, that the former connexion of the 

 Pillars of Hercules is rendered probable by many facts, among which I may 

 mention the existence of wild monkeys of the same species as those which in- 

 habit, side by side with the Eiff pu-ates, the ofiposite coast. 



