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scarcely distinguishable from history, yet when we pass back 
to its commencement, we find ourselves to have imper- 
ceptibly glided into the domain of Geology, without 
noticing any boundary to separate the one from the other. 
The beginning of Archaeology being, in fact, but the end of 
Geology, it is not surprising that they should, in the course of 
their development, have presented some remarkable analogies. 
M. Morlot has well pointed these out in his " Lecon 
d'ouverture d'un cours sur la haute antiquite, fait a 
l'Academie de Lausanne." Even, indeed, as the remains 
of extinct animals were at first supposed to be few and far 
between, whereas, in fact, the surface of the earth is made up 
of the dust and skeletons of our predecessors, so the relics 
of man, long looked upon as rare and exceptional in their 
occurrence, are gradually presenting themselves in unexpected 
profusion. Loth, however, to distrust the existing chronology, 
our antiquaries long referred all the most beautiful and well- 
made weapons to the Romans, just as all fossils were attributed 
to the action of the Deluge. Passing on, then, with a grace- 
ful compKment to two of our most eminent contemporaries, 
M. Morlot points out that as Lyell, the reformer of Geology, 
by studying the changes now taking place on the earth's sur- 
face, has explained the results which Geology brings before us, 
and thus arguing from the known to the unknown, has used 
the present as a key to unlock the past ; so If. Thomsen, by 
collecting the implements and recording the habits of existing 
savages, has thrown much light upon the manners and cus- 
toms of ancient times. Fully recognising the imperfection 
of the record in the one case as well as in the other, we must 
guard ourselves against any hasty conclusions and generali- 
sations, but it seems now to be well established that a con- 
siderable elongation of the received chronology is required in 
Archaeology as decidedly, though not, of course, to such an 
extent, as in Geology. 
