Chap. TO. THE RACES OF MAN. 237 
Ancient monuments and stone implements found in 
all parts of the world, of which no tradition is pre- 
served by the present inhabitants, indicate much 
extinction. Some small and broken tribes, remnants 
of former races, still survive in isolated and gene- 
rally mountainous districts. In Europe the ancient 
races were all, according to Scliaaffhausen , 28 “ lower in 
“ the scale than the rudest living savages ; ” they must 
therefore have differed, to a certain extent, from any 
existing race. The remains described by Professor 
Broca 29 from Les Eyzies, though they unfortunately 
appear to have belonged to a single family, indicate a 
race with a most singular combination of low or simious 
and high characteristics, and is “ entirely different 
“ from any other race, ancient or modern, that we have 
u ever heard of.” It differed, therefore, from the qua- 
ternary race of the caverns of Belgium. 
Unfavourable physical conditions appear to have had 
but little effect in the extinction of races . 30 Man has 
long lived in the extreme regions of the North, with 
no wood wherewith to make his canoes or other imple- 
ments, and with blubber alone for burning and giving 
him warmth, but more especially for melting the snow. 
In the Southern extremity of America the Fuegians 
survive without the protection of clothes, or of any 
building worthy to be called a hovel. In South Africa 
the aborigines wander over the most arid plains, where 
dangerous beasts abound. Man can withstand the 
deadly influence of the Terai at the foot of the Hima- 
laya, and the pestilential shores of tropical Africa. 
23 Translation in ‘Anthropological Review,’ Oct. 1868, p. 431. 
29 1 Transact. Internat. Congress of Prehistoric Arch.’ 1868, p. 172- 
175. See also Broca (translation) in * Anthropological Review,’ Oct. 
1868, p. 410. 
30 Dr. Gerland , 1 Ueber das Aussterben der Naturvolker/ 1868, s. 82. 
