Show man years old T the ile fie IN tw new york mation condenses from an english scientific periodic cal some interesting speculations of 0 dr alfred russell bussell wallace on the tilo probable fe antiquity of the human human buman species they may startle it says ay even those who have come como to the conclusion that oooo years carry us but a small way back to the origin nal home in fact in dr br wal laces reckoning years are but as asa a day he be reviews the various attempts to determine the antiquity of human remains or wor works il of art and finds the bronze age C in europe to have been pretty accurately fixed at or years ago the stone ston 0 age of the swiss lake dwellings 1 at or years and ari arl an indefinite period T the e burnt brick found sixty feet deep in the nile alluvium indicates an antiquity of years another fragment av at seventy two feet gives years A human skeleton found at a depth of sixteen feet below four hundred burled buried forests superposed upon each other has been calculated A by dr fowler to have an antiquity of years but ii all these estimates pale before those which rents vents cavern at torquay legitimates here the drip of the stalagmite is the chief factor of our computations giving us an upper floor which divides the relics ot of the last two or three thousand years from a deposit full of the tha bones of a distinct and gluttons glutton indicating 1 an arctic climate names cut in the stalagmite more than years ago are still legible in other words where the stalagmite is twelve neet peet reet thick and the drip still very copious not riot more than a hundredth of a foot has been posited deposited tle lle in two cen tureA turie tures a rate of five feet in years below this however we have a thick much older and more crystalline ie more slowly formed stalagmite beneath which again in a solid breccia very different from the cave earth undoubted works of art have been found 11 mr wallace assumes only years for the upper upper floor and about 3 for the lower and adds for the immediate cave earth by which he be arrives at the sum of half a million years that have probably elapsed since human huma n workmanship were buried in the lowest depths of rents kents cavern |