He next gives a general review of the mammalian life of the 

 Pleistocene or Quaternary era, with reference to the associates of 

 the earliest remains of man, called by him "River-drift Man," 

 speaks of English, European and American discoveries, and gives 

 the following as his general conclusions : 



"It remains now tor us to sum up the results of this inquiry, in 

 which we have Keen led very far afield. The identity of the im- 

 plements of the River-drift hunter proves that he was "in the same 

 rude state of civilization, if it can he called civilization, in the Old 

 and \Yw Worlds, when the hands of the geological clock pointed 

 to the same hour. It is not a little strange that his mode of life 

 should have been the same in the forests to the north and smith of 

 the tropical forests of India, 

 stern shores of the Atlantic The hunter of the 



poses the same sort of savage as the hu 



banks of thp Wil.-v or of the Solent, 



.f in. 



this 



long ages which separate it from our own time. 



River-drift man (assuming that mankind sprang from o 

 er) must have inhabited the earth for a long time, and tf 

 lispersal took place before the glacial suhmorgenee and t 

 'ring of the temperature in Northern Europe, Asia a 

 'rica. It is not reasonable to suppose that the Straits 

 ring would have offered a free passage, either to the Riv< 



■rica to Kuropc. «.r r!r, n-r.«'t. while there was a vast barri 



the River-drift man 

 implements occur. I 

 and his distribution ii 



