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sake, to correspond with those of the days of creation. It will be 
seen that it is only amidst the creatures of the sixth period, and 
rather towards the end of this era, that any remains attributable to 
man are to be found. I do not rest at all on the correspondence of 
the divisions, or their possible analogy to the days of the week of 
creation in Genesis ; but we see that, whether in the light of Scrip- 
ture or of science, man is comparatively a very late creation. 
28. It is well* remarked by M. Harny that the proofs of the 
co-existence of man and of any animal at a special epoch are of 
three orders: — (1) Man may have left some object of his industry 
in the ground, which contains the bones of the animal ; or (2) he 
may have marked on these the traces of his work ; or (3) he may 
have left his own remains in the same deposit of earth. 
29. It seems to me that the character of proof in the second of 
these three cases is by much the strongest, as most free from dis- 
turbing causes of error, especially when this his work is found con- 
nected with the attempt to represent co-existent forms of animal 
life. I shall therefore present to the eye of the reader a copy of 
some objects found in the cavern of Savigne, near Civray,t 
department of Vienne (figs. 1, 2). 
Lenormant, V Homme fossil c, p. 11. 
f Ed. Lartet, Sciences Nat. ZooI. y vol. xv. lflGl. 
