GENEALOGICAL TABLES lxix XV THE GERMAN BRANCH OF The house OF AUSTRIA FROM LEOPOLD 1. (The dates given are those during which an archduke was emperor.) XIX GENEALOGY OF THE PRINCES OF ORANGE FROM WILLIAM I. TO WILLIAM III. SHORTER AND SOMETIMES MORE DETAILED GENEALOGIES will be found in the following pages. Genealogical connection between the Houses of England and Normandy Conqueror's sons and children family of Godwine 83 1. Palæolithic Man of the River-Drift.—Countless ages ago, there was a period of time to which geologists have given the name of the Pleistocene Age. The part of the earth's surface afterwards called Britain was then attached to the Continent, so that animals could pass over on dry land. The climate was much colder than it is now, and it is known from the bones which have been dug up that the country was inhabited by wolves, bears, mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, and other creatures now extinct. No human remains have been found amongst these bones, but there is no doubt that men existed contemporaneously with their deposit, because, in the river drift, or gravel washed down by rivers, there have been discovered flints sharpened by chipping, which can only have been produced by the hand of an used them are known as York Publ •Libra Paleolithic, of the men of ancient" ecause these stone im plements are rougher and therefore oldern others which have N Hudson Park Branch, 66 LEROY STREET CIRCULATING DEPARTMENT. B |