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which, so far, we have no other mode of naming^ than as 

 those of Man. 



It is in the special interest of this view that I venture, 

 after so long a preface, to call attention to a series which 

 I have been allowed by Mr. Harrison to select from his 

 stores, and have arranged with very great care for the 

 special purpose of exhibiting full and characteristic series 

 of representations such as, I maintain, are unquestionable 

 proofs of design and skill in these most ancient stones. 



It does not in the least matter that no one now living 

 on the face of the earth is likely to be able to understand 

 what was the design of him whom we will call Eolithic man, 

 or his mode of life, or his manner of using his implements. 

 It is enough for us to show that these implements exhibit 

 definite lines of invention, so many several " patents," as 

 one might call them, deliberately and successfully worked 

 out. 



In such an investigation as the present, it is necessary 

 to bear in mind the primary condition of proof in the 

 rational establishment of facts. One stone may be found 

 with a remarkable signation which may well be compared 

 with the broken stones of the stream or of surface frost. But 

 search, and find another, and another, and many hundreds 

 of repetitions of precisely the same fracture, and it is 

 impossible not to see design and practice, i.e., manufacture, 

 and that by the only animal that uses his head and his 

 hands for the purpose. 



Without having had the opportunity of personal 

 repeated recourse to the plateau gravels, I can at least 

 say that under Mr. Harrison's guidance I have examined 

 several of his localities, and at one of them, namely at 

 Terry's Ledge, 700 feet above the level of the sea, in the 

 course of a couple of hours I was myself enabled to find, 

 in a deep trench, a handful of these eolithic tools. 



