﻿THREE 
  GENERAL 
  CONCLUSIONS. 
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  I 
  need 
  not 
  here 
  go 
  farther 
  into 
  detail 
  as 
  

   regards 
  this 
  kind 
  of 
  evidence. 
  Suffice 
  it 
  to 
  

   say, 
  that 
  all 
  the 
  facts 
  tend 
  to 
  these 
  three 
  

   general 
  conclusions: 
  1st, 
  that 
  Man 
  appeared 
  

   in 
  Northern 
  Europe 
  at 
  a 
  time 
  when 
  it 
  was 
  

   covered 
  with 
  great 
  quadrupeds 
  now 
  wholly 
  

   extinct 
  ; 
  2d, 
  that 
  the 
  surface 
  of 
  the 
  Earth 
  

   has 
  since 
  that 
  period 
  been 
  subjected 
  to 
  modi- 
  

   fications, 
  which 
  imply 
  great 
  changes 
  in 
  phy- 
  

   sical 
  geography 
  ; 
  and 
  3d, 
  that 
  the 
  period 
  

   when 
  those 
  animals 
  flourished, 
  and 
  when 
  Man 
  

   co-existed 
  with 
  them, 
  was 
  one 
  when 
  a 
  colder 
  

   climate 
  prevailed. 
  Now 
  no 
  one 
  conclusion 
  of 
  

   geological 
  science 
  is 
  more 
  firmly 
  established 
  

   than 
  this, 
  that 
  there 
  was 
  a 
  time, 
  compara- 
  

   tively 
  very 
  recent, 
  when 
  an 
  Arctic 
  climate 
  

   prevailed 
  far 
  down 
  into 
  latitudes 
  which 
  are 
  

  

  