Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . of his existence areeverywhere abundant as far south as theAlps and the Pyrenees. Of the extinctanimals that have flourished since the ap-pearance of man only the mammoth andthe hairy rhinoceros seem to have beenolder species than the reindeer. Thelatter appears to have had great endur-ance, and as late as the time of the com-position of Caesars Gallic War the animal still roamed in the Hercynian forest—atM.—Vol.
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . of his existence areeverywhere abundant as far south as theAlps and the Pyrenees. Of the extinctanimals that have flourished since the ap-pearance of man only the mammoth andthe hairy rhinoceros seem to have beenolder species than the reindeer. Thelatter appears to have had great endur-ance, and as late as the time of the com-position of Caesars Gallic War the animal still roamed in the Hercynian forest—atM.—Vol. i—20 least such was the information broughtto Caesar. The primitive man capturedthe reindeer, feasted on his flesh, took hishorns for implements, and his hide for acloak; but the animal was not domesti-cated in prehistoric times. More noted still as a contemporary ofthe cave dwellers was the great stagcalled the Irish elk. Thiswas, perhaps, the most mag-nificent animal of all thatwe are here considering. He grew to astature of more than ten feet, and anexisting pair of his antlers measureseleven feet from point to point! These Size and charac-teristics of theIrish MAMMOTH, RESTORED. tremendous horns were palmated likethose of the American moose, and thehuge creature dashing about the Irishpeat bogs or through the oak woods ofBritain must have been terrible, evensublime, in aspect. His remains arefrequently found in the peat measuresof Ireland and on the Continent, but stillmore abundantly in the lacustrine shellmarl underlying the bog earth of themarsh lands. Xext in order of these prehistoricanimals is the glutton, called in Amer-ica the wolverene. He appears to havebeen a contemporary of the creatures 298 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. above enumerated, and in many places to have had a particular association with man. But more impor- The prehistoric . bison of Europe lant by far in such associ- and America. ^^ wag the aurochS) Gr European bison. This animal has beenIon-
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