Capitolo 38
forty-five thousand acrid. The population on which the had lived
beaches of the lake were between thirty and forty thousand souls.
"There had been a lot one shipwreck, and a lot of a naval struggle on
those waters, and in hundreds of Dutch and Spanish soldiers and
sailors were met with a watery grave" there, still not a solitary
portion of the human skeleton would be found in its bed.<44>
This way we see that, in the majority of cases, we have to count on
other evidence that the presence of human bones to try the
man's existence in the geologic periods of the past. In the
case of the Lake of Haarlem of, new the shipwreck of one was found there
or two vases, and of the ancient armor. Then you/he/she had been him a,
disputed point if man were an inhabitant of this planet to the
time when the area in question you/he/she was covered by water, it is able
you/he/she has been established over a doubt from these the relics of his
industry, even if portions of the same human frame were
wanting completely. And, in reality, tests of this nature are,
in the moment in which satisfactory as it would be to discover human bones.
If, on an island of desert, we find arrow-heads, javelins, a place
where a fire there had been, divides bones and other
debris < / the > of a party, we am as very justified in to affirm
that men had been there, as we would be had there sees him/it with ours
own eyes. In the same way, if we discover in some strata of the
passed some sure products of human industry--as it arms,
or it improves and ornaments--in such position that we know them
you/he/she could not be deposited since the formation of there the
same bed, we don't have hesitation in to affirm that man himself
it is of the same antiquity as the strata that contain the
utensils. In the great majority of cases, this is the only one
kind of the possible evidence to advance.
It is well now known that the first one covers in the culture of some
people, are what has called the Stone Age. That is to say them,
weapon and utensils were served as stone, or at least the