[1642] Recent Origin of Man, p. 10.
[1643] Another way of looking at it gives reasons for this omission: “The first chapter of Genesis is not a geological treatise. It is absolutely valueless in geological discussion, and has no value whatever save as representing what the Jews borrowed from the Babylonians, and as preserving for us an early cosmology” (Howorth’s Mammoth and the Flood, Lond., 1887, p. ix). Between Lyell and Gabriel de Mortillet (La préhistorique Antiquité de l’Homme, Paris, 1881) on the one hand and Southall on the other, there are the more cautious geologists, like Prestwich, who claim that we must wait before we can think of measuring by years the interval from the earliest men. (Cf. “Theoretical considerations on the drift containing implements,” in Roy. Soc. Philos. Trans., 1862)
[1644] Cf. Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc., Apr., 1873, p. 33.
[1645] Winchell’s book is an enlargement of an article contributed by him to M’Clintock and Strong’s Cyclopædia of Biblical literature, etc. (vol viii., 1879),—the editors of which, by their foot-notes, showed themselves uneasy under some of his inferences and conclusions, which do not agree with their conservative views.
[1646] Lois Agassiz advanced (1863) this view of the first emergence of land in America, in the Atlantic Monthly, xi. 373; also in Geol. Sketches, p. 1,—marking the Laurentian hills along the Canadian borders of the United States as the primal continent. Cf. Nott and Gliddon’s Types of Mankind, ch. 9. Mortillet holds that so late as the early quaternary period Europe was connected with America by a region now represented by the Faröes, Iceland, and Greenland. Some general references on the antiquity of man in America follow:—Wilson, Prehistoric Man. Short’s No. Amer. of Antiq., ch. 2. Nadaillac, Les Premiers Hommes, ii. ch. 8. Foster, Prehistoric Races of the U. S., and Chicago Acad. of Sciences, Proc., i. (1869). Joly, Man before Metals, ch. 7. Emil Schmidt, Die ältesten Spuren des Menschen in Nord Amerika (Hamburg, 1887). A. R. Wallace in Nineteenth Century (Nov., 1887, or Living Age, clxxv. 472). Pop. Science Monthly, Mar., 1877. An epitome in Science, Apr. 3, 1885, of a paper by Dr. Kollmann in the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie. F. Larkin, Ancient Man in America (N. Y., 1880). The biblical record restrains Southall in all his estimates of the antiquity of man in America, as shown in his Recent Origin of Man, ch. 36, and Epoch of the Mammoth, ch. 25.
[1647] Hugh Falconer (Palæontological Memoirs, ii. 579) says: “The earliest date to which man has as yet been traced back in Europe is probably but as yesterday in comparison with the epoch at which he made his appearance in more favored regions.”
[1648] Cf. also Putnam’s Report in Wheeler’s Survey, 1879, p. 11.
[1649] Cf. H. H. Bancroft, iv. 703: Short, 125, etc.
[1650] Dr. Brinton concludes that since the region is one of a rapid deposition of strata, the tracks may not be older than quaternary. The track here figured was 9½ inches long; some were 10 inches. The maximum stride was 18 inches. Cf. Dr. Earl Flint in Amer. Antiquarian (vi. 112), Mar., 1884, and (vii. 156) May,1885; Peabody Mus. Repts., 1884, p. 356; 1885, p. 414; Amer. Ant. Soc. Proc., 1884, p. 92.
[1651] Story of the Earth and Man.