Produced by Chris Curnow, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: | | | | * Transcription used: | | - italic texts in the original work are represented here between| | underscores, as in _text_; | | - boldface texts in the original work are represented here | | between equal signs, as in =text=; | | - text printed in small capitals in the original work are | | transcribed in ALL CAPITALS. | | | | * Footnotes have been moved to directly under the paragraph they | | belong to. | | | | * Where a line of text was missing from the original work, this is| | indicated by [...]. | | | | More Transcriber's Notes may be found at the end of this text. | | | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ [Illustration: THE FIRST MAN.] THE WORLD BEFORE THE DELUGE. BY _LOUIS FIGUIER_. NEWLY EDITED AND REVISED BY H. W. BRISTOW, F.R.S., F.G.S., _Of the Geological Survey of Great Britain; Hon. Fellow of King’s College, London._ With 235 Illustrations. CASSELL, PETTER, & GALPIN, LONDON, PARIS, AND NEW YORK. CONTENTS. PAGE