MAORI MIDDENS. 
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in them, and further, of their forefathers haying had horses 
and iron implements. 
In addition to this, the great similarity of the Maori tongue 
to the Sanscrit evidently marks their origin, and establishes 
the fact that races may become degraded, and have re- 
course to stone implements to supply the place of copper 
or iron, which from changed circumstances were no longer 
to be procured, and indeed it seems very unlikely that any 
would have thought of stone if it were not to supply the 
place of metal, and that those who had never known its use 
would have had recourse to stone. If man had ever been 
of simious origin, he would no more have invented the one 
than the other, but continued unchanged to this day, as well 
as the other members of that family. 
AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN, AND MODERN MAORI HOE, HE TIMA 
