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THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN.
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naturally led to ask if it is possible to estimate in figures this antiquity of our species. We are obliged up to the present time to answer, No.

Fig. 6.

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Sketch of Fossil Mammoth on ivory, found among Cave Relics.

We can perfectly establish relative epochs; but we cannot judge of the number of years that each of these epochs represents.