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but when the French author says that primeval man in America 
had to contend with elephants and edentate animals, and that 
the period in which he lived “ was marked by floods, of which 
man still retains traditions;” when he proceeds to cover a 
large area of California with glaciers, and adopts without reserva- 
tion Agassiz’s view that Brazil was once covered with glaciers, 
we wish for a soberer, more critical narrator of events. Again 
the Trenton: unpolished stone implements occur in the higher 
river terraces, which were formed long after the ice had melted 
and disappeared ; they do not occur in true glacial deposits. Yet 
Nadaillac thus declaims in reference to the Trenton finds : “ Man 
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Truncated Mound at Marietta, Ohio. 
ved through these convulsions; he survived the rigors of the 
cold; he survived the flo ods, as the recent discoveries of Dr. 
Abbott in the glacial ah oh the Delaware near Trenton, N. 
. seem to prove beyond a doubt.” 
: Is our Bahor is anaa in saying that the Calaveras skull 
“resembles the Eskimo type;” was not Wyman’s opinion that 
it case gins that of a California Ne the more natural and 
correct one ag St 
pees the mound-builders, the sensible view is expressed 
that they were no more nor less than the immediate predecessors 
in blood and culture of the Indians described by De Soto’s 
chronicler and other early explorers, the Indians kbo inhabited 
