. The quarterly journal of science. Ph 1866.] of the Tivo earliest known Races of Men. 337 lected together by the current, as at Ilford in Essex. The Hippo-potamus disputed with the Beaver and the Otter the sovereignty ofthe rivers. In the forests dwelt two species of extinct Khinoceros,the Bison and the Urus, the Irish Elk and the Horse, and affordedfood for the Wolves, the gigantic Cave-Lion and Cave-Bear, theCave-Hyena and the Glutton. On such a scene as this naan appears for the first time armedwith the rudest weapons of flint, chert, and bone. Exposed hke thebeasts to the vicissitudes of
. The quarterly journal of science. Ph 1866.] of the Tivo earliest known Races of Men. 337 lected together by the current, as at Ilford in Essex. The Hippo-potamus disputed with the Beaver and the Otter the sovereignty ofthe rivers. In the forests dwelt two species of extinct Khinoceros,the Bison and the Urus, the Irish Elk and the Horse, and affordedfood for the Wolves, the gigantic Cave-Lion and Cave-Bear, theCave-Hyena and the Glutton. On such a scene as this naan appears for the first time armedwith the rudest weapons of flint, chert, and bone. Exposed hke thebeasts to the vicissitudes of a climate far more severe than that nowobtaining in the same area, hving like the Hysenas in caves whereverhe could find them, sheltered from the cold where there were nocaves by a rude hut, probably little better than the lair of a wildbeast, preying on the wild animals around him, he fought for dearlife itself with the great carnivora. Separated from the beasts bythe possession of reason, he had already mastered the use of fire,
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