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61:3.8The Strait of Gibral­tar closed, and Spain was con­nected with Africa by the old land bridge, but the Med­i­ter­ra­nean flowed into the At­lantic through a nar­row chan­nel which ex­tended across France, the moun­tain peaks and high­lands ap­pear­ing as is­lands above this an­cient sea. Later on, these Eu­ro­pean seas be­gan to with­draw. Still later, the Med­i­ter­ra­nean was con­nected with the In­dian Ocean, while at the close of this pe­riod the Suez re­gion was el­e­vated so that the Med­i­ter­ra­nean be­came, for a time, an in­land salt sea.

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61:4.210,000,000 years ago be­gan an age of wide­spread lo­cal land de­posits on the low­lands of the con­ti­nents, but most of these sed­i­men­ta­tions were later re­moved. Much of Eu­rope, at this time, was still un­der wa­ter, in­clud­ing parts of Eng­land, Bel­gium, and France, and the Med­i­ter­ra­nean Sea cov­ered much of north­ern Africa. In North Amer­ica ex­ten­sive de­po­si­tions were made at the moun­tain bases, in lakes, and in the great land basins. These de­posits av­er­age only about two hun­dred feet, are more or less col­ored, and fos­sils are rare. Two great fresh-wa­ter lakes ex­isted in west­ern North Amer­ica. The Sier­ras were el­e­vat­ing; Shasta, Hood, and Rainier were be­gin­ning their moun­tain ca­reers. But it was not un­til the sub­se­quent ice age that North Amer­ica be­gan its creep to­ward the At­lantic de­pres­sion.

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61:5.4The north­ern re­gions of this world have ex­pe­ri­enced six sep­a­rate and dis­tinct ice in­va­sions, al­though there were scores of ad­vances and re­ces­sions as­so­ci­ated with the ac­tiv­ity of each in­di­vid­ual ice sheet. The ice in North Amer­ica col­lected in two and, later, three cen­ters. Green­land was cov­ered, and Ice­land was com­pletely buried be­neath the ice flow. In Eu­rope the ice at var­i­ous times cov­ered the British Isles ex­cept­ing the coast of south­ern Eng­land, and it over­spread west­ern Eu­rope down to France.

63:5.2Be­fore this ex­ten­sive ice sheet reached France and the British Isles, the de­scen­dants of An­don and Fonta had pushed on west­ward over Eu­rope and had es­tab­lished more than one thou­sand sep­a­rate set­tle­ments along the great rivers lead­ing to the then warm wa­ters of the North Sea.

63:5.3These An­donic tribes were the early river dwellers of France; they lived along the river Somme for tens of thou­sands of years. The Somme is the one river un­changed by the glaciers, run­ning down to the sea in those days much as it does to­day. And that ex­plains why so much ev­i­dence of the An­donic de­scen­dants is found along the course of this river val­ley.

64:1.5Dur­ing most of the ice age Eng­land was con­nected by land with France, while later on Africa was joined to Eu­rope by the Si­cil­ian land bridge. At the time of the An­donic mi­gra­tions there was a con­tin­u­ous land path from Eng­land in the west on through Eu­rope and Asia to Java in the east; but Aus­tralia was again iso­lated, which fur­ther ac­cen­tu­ated the de­vel­op­ment of its own pe­cu­liar fauna.

64:1.6950,000 years ago the de­scen­dants of An­don and Fonta had mi­grated far to the east and to the west. To the west they passed over Eu­rope to France and Eng­land. In later times they pen­e­trated east­ward as far as Java, where their bones were so re­cently found—the so-called Java man—and then jour­neyed on to Tas­ma­nia.

64:2.6Though the re­mains of the Fox­hall peo­ples were the last to be dis­cov­ered in Eng­land, these An­don­ites were re­ally the first hu­man be­ings to live in those re­gions. At that time the land bridge still con­nected France with Eng­land; and since most of the early set­tle­ments of the An­don de­scen­dants were lo­cated along the rivers and seashores of that early day, they are now un­der the wa­ters of the En­glish Chan­nel and the North Sea, but some three or four are still above wa­ter on the En­glish coast.

80:5.5The strongholds of the blue man which per­sisted longest were in south­ern France, but the last great mil­i­tary re­sis­tance was over­come along the Somme. The later con­quest pro­gressed by com­mer­cial pen­e­tra­tion, pop­u­la­tion pres­sure along the rivers, and by con­tin­ued in­ter­mar­riage with the su­pe­ri­ors, cou­pled with the ruth­less ex­ter­mi­na­tion of the in­fe­ri­ors.

64:4.1The Ne­an­derthalers were ex­cel­lent fight­ers, and they trav­eled ex­ten­sively. They grad­u­ally spread from the high­land cen­ters in north­west In­dia to France on the west, China on the east, and even down into north­ern Africa. They dom­i­nated the world for al­most half a mil­lion years un­til the times of the mi­gra­tion of the evo­lu­tion­ary races of color.

80:9.13These were the times of the New Stone Age over­lap­ping the on­com­ing Bronze Age. In Scan­di­navia it was the Bronze Age as­so­ci­ated with mother wor­ship. In south­ern France and Spain it was the New Stone Age as­so­ci­ated with sun wor­ship. This was the time of the build­ing of the cir­cu­lar and roof­less sun tem­ples. The Eu­ro­pean white races were en­er­getic builders, de­light­ing to set up great stones as to­kens to the sun, much as did their later-day de­scen­dants at Stone­henge. The vogue of sun wor­ship in­di­cates that this was a great pe­riod of agri­cul­ture in south­ern Eu­rope.

80:5.8By 5000 B.C. the evolv­ing white races were dom­i­nant through­out all of north­ern Eu­rope, in­clud­ing north­ern Ger­many, north­ern France, and the British Isles. Cen­tral Eu­rope was for some time con­trolled by the blue man and the round-headed An­don­ites. The lat­ter were mainly sit­u­ated in the Danube val­ley and were never en­tirely dis­placed by the And­ites.