[8] The Ceylon elephant is by some believed to be distinct, but is
probably a variety of the Indian species.
[9] _Fossil Men_ (London, 1880), Appendix.
[10] The first continental period was that of the earlier Pliocene.
[11] The precise date in years assignable to this event geology cannot
determine; but I have elsewhere shown that the actual antiquity of the
palæocosmic or antediluvian man has been greatly exaggerated.