Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-07-28

quols specimens in the rough,-just
 as they were taken from the ledge.
 The teeth of the mummy are large.
 intact, and set we'll Tn heavy project
 ing jaws.
 ''The lower jaw sticks we'll to the
 front and Is unusually large and
 heavy, being as large again as that
 Of the men of today. A q hat fits
 closely ly to the bare skull. The body
 IS small, shoulders narrow, legs and
 arms large and strong; legs long,
 arms and fingers phenOmenally long.
 The fingers of the hands are eight
 inches in length, armed with claw
 like finger nails. There IS almost
 no forehead; the back of the head IS large and round; the skull has a
 sharp incline down to the eyebrows
 and the hair seems to have grown
 close to the eyes. The mummy is
 complete, and seems to have dried
 up with slight decomposition. The
 skull is thick, and the massive under
 jaw, the fierce and powerful glisten-
 ing teeth, the long arms and fingers,
 make this prehistoric man a curies-
 ity indeed"
 Having viewed this "Toltec" won der while on exhibition in Prescott, We further endorse the remark by J. c. Martin, that, fits wonderful ape like features and make up, en- titles 1t to rank foremost among the archaeological discoveries of the age"
 Now, if we assume that the devel- opment of the forms of life, from a lower to higher plane, progressed in the western hemisphere with equal uniformity with that of the eastern, and be consistent with the principle of evolution, we must assign to the McCarty mummy more remote antiquity than is rec orded to the mummies of Egyptian history. The principle of evolution bearing upon this subject may now be plainly stated: "The first intro duced of any class, order or family are not typical examples of their class, order or family, but connect ing types-forms which, along with their distinctive classic or family combine others, which connect with other classes ing in the physical structure and form indelible evidence of lower origin See Elements of Geology, 1st Edition. page 344, by Lecont. As time appears to be an important factor in the progress of evolution, a conception of its immensity is given by physchist, who has, from data probably, and indls- putable scientific reasoning, placed a limit of l00,0O0.000 as the age of the era. Within this period the geologist may conform his primary divisions of time, which he bases upon unconformity of rock foTma- tions and change of the fauna and flora. So may not the astronomer furnish the archaeologist with a time key with which to unlock the of centuries that have elapsed since primitive man inhabit- ed the globel
 A time key Is furnished by the cycle, said to have been computed with the utmost precision, that has produced a glacial epoch. Now, as the works of primitive man of the "Mid Way Race" have been found in undisturbed glacial and it is conceded from data see same Eli ments of Geology, page 5S9l that S0000 years have elapsed since the retreat of the glaciers that produced he moraines, We may assign the first instruction of so-called primi- i've man as contemporapeous with he beginning of the quarternary period, and fix the McCarty mummv IS closely allied by descent with the inhabitants of the early stone age; m age of revolutions and outpour- ngs of lava from primary Assure ,ruptions resulting from over pres ure on the earth's crust from the maximum accumulations of ice dur ng the glacial epoch. Yet such a change in the aspect of lature is "unremarked except by the we of science. ."-Lecont.
 Proceeding with our premises, we nay surmise, in tue order of their ,reation, the rise in the scale of organic life. Gorilla, or species of Ipe of the Cenozoic Era, 300 c. c. 4. Midway Race, or connecting ink, of the quarternary period of he early stone age, 1000 c. c. NJ. Historic mankind of the Psychozoic ra, including the lowest normal of oday, l,500 c. c. M. Maximum possible for man, 2,000 c. c. M.
 Now, as we assume two thousand entimeters as a normal theoretical naximum brain capacity for man, hen history furnishes numerous il- lstrious characters who have ap- it very nearly.
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