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same district uninterruptedly ; so that, if the bones from Cro-Mag- 
non are not those of the artists of the Reindeer Period, they are at 
least those of the ancestors of that people. 
“The remains of the men of the Quaternary Period that we have 
hitherto been able to study belonged, for the most part, to individ- 
uals of short stature, with a rather small cranium, and a more or less 
prognathous face. Hence it has been concluded that the primitive 
population of Europe belonged to a Negroid race, according to 
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differences ought to be less and less as we look back to past ages; 
and when the Polygenists object that the separation of the princi- 
pal groups of races was already complete in the earliest historical 
times, they are told that it was not in those times, so close to our 
me, 
“ It comes to this, however, (and it is usually the ease,) that facts 
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April Ist, 1869; and as he was obliged to submit his report in 
October, he had but a few months in the field. He seems, how 
ever, to have made excellent use of the time at his disposal: and 
in his notes on California, Nevada, o, Montana, Ti ’ 
Arizona, he has given, ina very systematic manner, the leading 
