A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . m,and in England, man has left the indubitable witnesses of his life, inassociation with the bones of these extinct animals, of which wholeraces perished while he survived through periods of successive sub-mersions and upheavals of land, of floods from slowly receding gla-ciers, of alterations in climate due, perhaps, to the changing relativepos
A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . m,and in England, man has left the indubitable witnesses of his life, inassociation with the bones of these extinct animals, of which wholeraces perished while he survived through periods of successive sub-mersions and upheavals of land, of floods from slowly receding gla-ciers, of alterations in climate due, perhaps, to the changing relativepositions of the earth to the sun, perhaps to the relative areas of landand sea in different portions of the globe at different periods. These people who first appeared, or the first, at least, who areknown to have appeared, in Europe, were mere naked sav-ages with an instinct to kill and to eat, to creep under a rockas a shelter from the cold and the rain ; who in the course of timelearned that fire would burn and cook, that there was warmth in theskin of a beast, that a sharpened stone would kill and would scrapemuch better than a blunt one. From generation to generation theylived and died in the caves where they have left the evidences of their. t-iyv^l Long-haired Elephant. The cavemen. REMAINS IN SHELL-HEAPS.
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