VI. OTHER LEGENDS OF THE CONFLAGRATION 166 VII. LEGENDS OF THE CAVE-LIFE 195 VIII. LEGENDS OF THE AGE OF DARKNESS 208 IX. THE TRIUMPH OF THE SUN 233 X. THE FALL OF THE CLAY AND GRAVEL 251 XI. THE ARABIAN MYTHS 268 XII. THE BOOK OF JOB 276 XIII. GENESIS READ BY THE LIGHT OF THE COMET 316 PART IV. CONCLUSIONS. I. WAS PRE-GLACIAL MAN CIVILIZED? 341 II. THE SCENE OF MAN'S SURVIVAL 366 III. THE BRIDGE 376 IV. OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED 389 V. BIELA'S COMET 408 VI. THE UNIVERSAL BELIEF OF MANKIND 424 VII. THE EARTH STRUCK BY COMETS MANY TIMES 431 VIII. THE AFTER-WORD 437 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE DRIFT Frontispiece. TILL OVERLAID WITH BOWLDER-CLAY 5 SCRATCHED STONE, FROM THE TILL 6 RIVER ISSUING FROM A SWISS GLACIER 19 TERMINAL MORAINE 20 GLACIER-FURROWS AND SCRATCHES AT STONY POINT, 26 LAKE ERIE DRIFT-DEPOSITS IN THE TROPICS 38 STRATIFIED BEDS IN TILL, LEITHEN WATER, 54 PEEBLESSHIRE, SCOTLAND SECTION AT JOINVILLE 54 ORBITS OF THE PERIODIC COMETS 83 ORBIT OF EARTH AND COMET 88 THE EARTH'S ORBIT 89 THE COMET SWEEPING PAST THE EARTH 92 THE SIDE OF THE EARTH STRUCK BY THE COMET 93 THE SIDE NOT STRUCK BY THE COMET 93 THE GREAT COMET OF 1811 95 CRAG AND TAIL 98 SOLAR SPECTRUM 105 SECTION AT ST. ACHEUL 122 THE ENGIS SKULL 124 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL 125 PLUMMET FROM SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, CALIFORNIA 180 COMET OF 1862 137 COURSE OF DONATI'S COMET 157 THE PRIMEVAL STORM 220 THE AFRITE IN THE PILLAR 270 DAHISH OVERTAKEN BY DIMIRIAT 272 EARTHEN VASE, FOUND IN THE CAVE OF FURFOOZ, 347 BELGIUM PRE-GLACIAL MAN'S PICTURE OF THE MAMMOTH 349