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 . ;EBAST1AN CABOT LEAVING LABRADOR. Primeval America. CHAPTER I. THE PRE-HISTORIC MAN. Man coeval with Extinct Animals. — The Cave-people. — Scandinavian Shell-heaps.— Lake-dwellings of Switzerland. —Habits of the Primitive Man.—Two Stone Ages. — Resemblance between Stone Relics of Two Hemispheres.— America the Oldest Continent. — A Zone of Pyrami
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 . ;EBAST1AN CABOT LEAVING LABRADOR. Primeval America. CHAPTER I. THE PRE-HISTORIC MAN. Man coeval with Extinct Animals. — The Cave-people. — Scandinavian Shell-heaps.— Lake-dwellings of Switzerland. —Habits of the Primitive Man.—Two Stone Ages. — Resemblance between Stone Relics of Two Hemispheres.— America the Oldest Continent. — A Zone of Pyramids.—Traditions ofA Lost Continent.— Shell-heaps in United States. — A Pre-historic HuntIN Missouri. — Human Remains in Gold-drift of California. — Superior An-tiquity OF Man in America. The period and the conditions of the early existence of man have,within the last half century, been the subject of fresh and interestinginvestigation. The recognition of human relics in certain geologicalrelations has established the fact that there once prevailed in Europea barbarism essentially like that belonging: to the lower type . ^ •^ . . Antiquity of of savasjes of our own time. This primeval state of man in man in eu-that portion of the world existed to
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