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terranean prove him to have belonged either to the temperate or 

 the southern fauna in those regions. 



It will naturally be asked, to what nice can the River-drift man 

 be referred? The question, in my opinion, cannot be answered 

 in the present stage of tin- inquiry, because the few fragments of 

 human bones discovered along with the implements are too im- 

 perfect to afford any clue. Nor can we measure the interval in 

 terms of years which separate the l.'i\< r-drift man from the pres- 

 ent day, either l>y assuming that the glacial period was due to 



astr miical causes, and then proceeding to calculate the time 



necessary for them to produce their result, or by an appeal to the 



must, however, 'have been very great to allow of the change- in 



for, thi n k-hewn 



tombs of the kings at Luxor, we may realize the impossibility of 



days and the >plendor of the ei\ ilization of Egypt. 



In this inquiry, which is all too long, I tear, for my audienct , and 

 all too short, I know, for my subject, 1 have purposely omitted all 



Sir William 



iniuu-pS'ioto^ . Mil'- IJriti'sh Isles, gi 



e f-dlowing delinitions of the main types: 



