Chapter V: ANTIQUITY OF THE PALEOLITHIC AGE.

Interest in the Antiquity of man—Connected with the Glacial

Age—The subject difficult—Proofs of a Glacial Age—State of

Greenland to-day—The Terminal Moraine—Appearance of the North

Atlantic—Interglacial Age—Causes of the Glacial Age—Croll’s

Theory—Geographical causes—The two theories not antagonistic—The

date of the Glacial Age—Probable length of the Paleolithic

Age—Time Since the close of the Glacial Age—Summary of results.

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