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 . THE PRE-HISTORIC MAN. [Chap. I. Nor are these men of the caves and of the Kjokken-Moddings theonly representatives of the ancient race or races who left their relicsin their actual habitations. In the years 1853-54, two successive dryseasons reduced the waters of the lakes of Switzerland to a lower pointthan was ever known before. It was discove
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 . THE PRE-HISTORIC MAN. [Chap. I. Nor are these men of the caves and of the Kjokken-Moddings theonly representatives of the ancient race or races who left their relicsin their actual habitations. In the years 1853-54, two successive dryseasons reduced the waters of the lakes of Switzerland to a lower pointthan was ever known before. It was discovered, first by accident andafterward by careful search, that dwellings built upon piles had once. Lake-dwellers Village. (Restored by Keller stood in these lakes near their shores. Continued systematic and pa-tient examination of the sites of these habitations proves that some ofthem belonged to an ancient people, and that, as their relics show,they lived in them, from century to century, from the earliest appear-ance of man down, probably, to the historic period. With these last discoveries the case seems complete. In the darkcaves of various regions, for whose possession these early men doubt-less contended with the cave-lion, the cave-bear, and the cave-hyena;by the sea-shore in the Kjokken-Moddings of Denmark; in the hutsof the Lake region where they put water between themselves and alldanger from wild beasts or other enemies, their history is read in thesimple implements of the infancy and childhood of the race. When the human creature learned that he could avail himself ofhis hands in a way and with an intelligent purpose to whichof the prim- no othcT animal had attained, an
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