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soutliward to the Cape of Good Hope ! As yet, our 

 records of discoveries in India and Eastern Asia are but 

 scanty : but it is there that the traces of the cradle of the 

 human race are, in my opinion, to be sought, and possibly 

 future discoveries may place upon a more solid foundation 

 the visionary structure that I have ventured to erect. 



It may be thought that my hypothesis does not do 

 justice to what Sir Tlionias Browne has so happily termed 

 " that great antiquity, America." I am, however, not 

 here immediately concerned with the important Neolithic 

 remains of all kinds with whicli this great continent 

 a'bounds. I am now confining myself to the question 

 of Palaeolithic man and his oricrin, and in considerincj it I 

 am not unmindful of the Trenton implements, though I 

 must content myself by saying that the " turtle-back" 

 form is essentially different from the majority of those on 

 the wide dissemination of which I have been speculating, 

 and, moreover, as many here present are aware, the 

 circumstances of the finding of these American imple- 

 ments are still under careful discussion. 



Leaving them out of the question for the present, it 

 may be thought worth while to carry our speculations 

 rather further and to consider the relations in time 

 between the Paheolithic and the Neolithic Periods. We 

 have seen that the stage in human civilisation denoted by 

 the use of the ordinary forms of Pahtolithic implements 

 must have extended over a vast period of time if we have 

 to allow for the migration of the primieval hunters from 

 their original home, wherever it may have been in Asia or 

 Africa, to the west of Europe, including Britain. We 

 have seen that, during this migration, the forms of 

 the weapons and tools made from silicious stones had 

 become, as it were, stereotyped, and further, that, during 

 the subsequent extended period implied by the erosion of 

 the valleys, the modifications in the form of the imple- 



