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that Man existed before the extermination of the Post-tertiary species. Lartet 

 has described a cave near Aurignac in the vicinity of the Pyrenees (Department 

 of Haute-Garonne), which contains human skeletons, and flint and bone or 

 horn implements, along with fragments of bones or teeth of the Cave Hyena, 

 Cave Bear, Cave Felis, Fox, Wild Boar, Bison, Stag, Reindeer, Irish Elk, and 

 others. The bones are supposed to have been carried in by the human inhabit- 

 ants, and the most of them were from their food. Many show that they had 

 been split open to get out the marrow. Lartet remarks that the people must 

 have been cotemporaries of the Rhinoceros, Hyena, and Gigantic Elk; and even 

 of the Cave Bear, the species among the great Mammals of the Post- tertiary 

 which was probably the earliest to disappear. 



Near Palermo, Sicily, there is a cavern containing human relics, along with 

 some remains of extinct animals. 



In North America there are no known facts sufficiently well authenticated to 

 be here repeated. 



In some of the South American caverns Dr. Lund found human bones along 

 with those of extinct species, and has published as his conclusion that the bones 

 belonged to an ancient tribe which was coeval with some of the extinct 

 Mammals. 



As the implements among these early relics are all made of stone, 

 the age in which they occur has been called ilae Stone period (or 

 Stone age), in distinction from the later Bronze or Archaic period, 

 and still later Iron or Teutonic period. But until Asia has been 

 fully explored, and found to afford corresponding facts, the term 

 should be regarded as belonging to European history rather than 

 to that of the human race ; and so also with all conclusions with 

 regard to the characteristics of the earliest of mankind derived 

 from the forms of bones or skulls. Geology here passes over the 

 continuation of the history of Man to Archseology. 



The observations thus far made appear to accord with the view, 

 already expressed, that in the Terrace epoch there occurred both 

 the decline of the Post-tertiary races and the introduction of the 

 modern tribes of Mammals, together with the creation of Man. 

 Other animal tribes must have been at the same time replenished, 

 especially those of Birds and Insects, which are terrestrial. Among 

 fruits and flowers it is not improbable that many kinds were intro- 

 duced that added both to the beauty and wealth of the finished 

 world. 



As Man was in the prospect through all the progressing changes 

 of earlier time, it is not too much to say that in the final fitting up 

 of the earth with life there was still a reference to him. If creation 

 was the plan of a being of omniscience and wisdom, the end was in 

 the beginning, and in each succeeding step. 



In order to appreciate the distinctive features of the age of Man, 



