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CHAPTER XXXIV. 



RELATION OF THE DIFFERENT RACES OF MEN IN BRITAIN 

 TO THE GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY. 



I SHALL now give a brief account of the influence of the 

 geology upon the human inhabitants of different parts 

 of our Island. 



Great Britain is inhabited by several peoples, more 

 or less intermingled with one another. It requires but 

 a cursory examination to see that the more mountainous 

 and barren districts, as a whole, are inhabited by two 

 Celtic populations, very distinct from each other, and 

 yet akin. The lowland parts are chiefly occupied by 

 the descendants of Teutonic and Scandinavian races, 

 now intimately intermixed, in some degree with the 

 earlier Celtic inhabitants, who themselves on their 

 coming undoubtedly mingled with yet earlier tribes. 



It will be remembered that both in England and 

 on the Continent of Europe, remains of man (his bones 

 and weapons) have been found in caves and river 

 gravels, associated with bones of the Mammoth, 

 Rhinoceros, Reindeer, and other mammalia, some of 

 which are now extinct. That these early people, who 

 at least date back to the Glacial epoch, were savage 

 hunters, often living in caves, when they could find 

 such ready-made accommodation, there can be but little 

 doubt ; but to what type of mankind they belonged, or 

 whether they are represented by any unmixed modern 



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