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the necessity of looking narrowly into facts bearing on the ques- 
tion. All the alleged cases of the existence of man before the 
F — may have been produced by other agencies than the hand 
of man 
_Nor in the succeeding Pliocene age is the evidence more con- 
vineing. The human skull found in a railway cutting at Olmo, in 
Northern Italy, and supposed to be of Pliocene age, was asso- 
ciated with an implement, according to Dr. John Evans, of 
Neolithic age. Some of the cut fossil bones discovered in various 
arts of Lombardy, and considered by Professor Capellini to be 
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adruped 
now alive then dwelt in Europe, renders it highly improbable that 
man was living at this time. This zoological difficulty seems to 
me insuperable. 
e only other case which demands notice is that which is taken 
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Pliocene age; and the fact, that bf two species of quad 
