Conflicting accounts of the American Aborigines—Recent
discoveries—Climate of California in Tertiary Times—Geological
changes near its close—Description of Table Mountain—Results of
the discoveries there—The Calaveras skull—Other relics—Discussion
of the question—Early Californians Neolithic—Explanation of
this—Date of the Pliocene Age—Other discoveries bearing on the
Antiquity of man—Dr. Koch’s discovery—Discoveries in the Loess of
Nebraska—In Greene County, Ill.—In Georgia—Difficulties in
detecting a Paleolithic Age in this country—Dr. Abbott’s
discoveries—Paleolithic Implements of the Delaware—Age of the
deposits—The race of Paleolithic man—Ancestors of the
Eskimos—Comparison of Paleolithic Age in this country with that
in Europe—Eskimos one of the oldest races in the World.