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ikie's "Great Ice Age," p. 123. (18) Wallace's "Island Life," p. 143. (19) Ibid., p. 124. (20) "Geology of New Hampshire," Vol. II, p. 5. (21) Wallace's "Island Life," p. 99. (22) Geikie's "Great Ice Age," p. 103. (23) Wallace's "Island Life," p. 149. Hitchcock's "Geology of New Hampshire," Vol. II, p. 7, gives a map showing what immense areas in that section would be raised to the surface by a raise of three hundred feet. (24) _American Journal of Science,_ 1871, p. 329. (25) Wallace's "Island Life," p. 184. (26) Wallace's "Island Life," p. 182. (27) Ibid., p. 157 and note. Prof. Wright thinks this statement doubtful. He refers to the date of the Glacial Age in the Southern Hemisphere. (28) Wallace's "Island Life," p. 200; Dawkins's "Early Man in Britain," p. 119; Geikie's "Great Ice Age," p. 256; Quatrefages's "Human Species," p. 288. (29) For these results, see McFarland's Calculations in "American Journal of Science," 1880, p. 105. (30) "Island Life," p. 153. (31) See chart, p. 124, Wallace's "Island Life." (32) "Ancient Society," p. 39. (33) "Island Life," p. 201. (34) "Prehistoric Europe," p. 312. (35) On this point consult Wright's "Studies in Science and Religion," pp. 232-347; also Prof. Lewis in "Primitive Industry," pp. 547-551. (36) "Prehistoric Europe," p. 560. (37) See any isothermal map. (38) Wallace's "Island Life," p. 154, note. (39) "Geology of New Hampshire," Vol. III, p. 327, referred to in Wright's "Studies in Science and Religion," p. 327. Chapter VI THE NEOLITHIC AGE IN EUROPE.<1> Close of the first cycle--Neolithic culture connected with the present--No links between the two ages--Long lapse of time between the two ages--Swiss lake villages--This form of villages widely scattered--Irish cranogs--Fortified villages--Implements and weapons of Neolithic times--Possessed of pottery--Neolithic agriculture--Possessed of domestic animals--Danish shell-heaps--Importance of flint--The art of navigation--Neolithic clothing--Their modes of burial--The question of race--Possible remnants--Connection with the Turanian race--Arrival of the Celts. In the preceding chapters we have sought to learn what we could of the Paleolithic Age. We have seen what strange people and animals occupied the land, and have caught some glimpses o
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