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OEIGIN AND DISTEIBUTION OF MAN. 



[Cii. XLIII. 



We have as yet no geological data to enable ns to determine 

 the relative antiquity of man in the Old and New World. 

 Some fossil remains of onr species found in the valley of the 

 Mississippi imply^ if their geological position has been cor- 

 rectly ascertained^ that man was contemporary with many 

 extinct quadrupeds and inhabited that region before it under- 

 went some of its latest geographical changes."^ But as a 

 matter of speculation, if we assume that mankind, like every 

 other species, has had but one birthplace, and if we also sup- 

 pose him to have been derived from some nearly allied proto- 

 type, we must incline to the belief that the peopling of America 

 took place at a later period than that of the Old World ; for 

 man, as has been truly said, is an ' Old- World type,' his bodily 

 structure, as before observed (p. 231), being closely related to 

 that of the quadrumana of Africa and Asia, and differing 

 widely from all the species of the Western Hemisphere. But 

 the first settling of mankind in America, though a compara- 



Some of the latest chang 



tively modern event, may still dat< 



lithic period of Western Europe. 



in the valley of the Mississippi and its tributaries may have 



taken place since the remains of man and of some extinct 



animals vv^ere buried in superficial deposits, yet throughout the 



i3eriod of these geographical changes the chain of the Andes 



may have been always continuous from Canada to Patagonia, 



from 



end of the continent to another. 



Mr. Wallace in his memoir on Man in the Malay 

 lago,t has explained how nearly the line a, & (map. 



fig. 132, 



p. 347), which separates the regions of the Indian and the 

 Australian faunas, agrees with the geographical boundary 

 line c, 6 (ibid.) dividing the habitations of the Indo-Malayan 

 and the Papuan races. He describes the typical Malayan 



almost 



more 



almost 



olive tint, hair black and straight, the face 



of beard, the stature below the average European, while the 



much 



as 



I^e 



^ro, the hair growing in tufts and frizzly, the face 



^ LycU, ' Antiquity of Man; p. 200. f JRea^^ ^^ Brit. Assoc, Newcastle, 1804. 



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