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to break off the edge of the stone and to make it more 

 characteristically serviceable for some particular use, this 

 " breaking " being a small flaking perpendicularly through 

 the thickness of the stone, and not flaking to an edge. 



By way of indication that my construction of my 

 specimens is not fanciful, I have in another case accumu- 

 lated together 50 picked specimens of the smallest of 

 these tools, with the curve and the point, and the lateral 

 vertical chipping manifestly exhibited. 



After looking at all these and at hundreds more, I 

 observe, confidently, that I have never seen in any one 

 palaeolithic implement anything at all like the systematic 

 form of the working of the eoliths. I venture to add 

 further that I, at least, have never seen of pakieolithic 

 make any of the smaller sorts. 



I have no right to plead my familiarity with the 

 subject, such as it is, as sufficient for positive judgment : 

 but I do contend that it is impossible to pass by these 

 series without being satisfied as to the artifical intention 

 and particular character and purposefulness of every one 

 of these implements, and of their peculiar and special 

 preparation. 



By way of further illustration, I have added a tray of 

 these implements from South Ash, another from West 

 Yoke, and one from Terry's Ledge at 700 feet, from 

 which, I think, any practised observer would be able at 

 once to recognise what the naturalists c^W Xho. fades oi 

 the deposit, and to distinguish it finally from the later 

 and improved palaeolithic specimens. 



In one other case I exhibit two cr three specimens, so 

 peculiar that I had serious doubts whether they were not 

 what the sceptics call natural stones. One is a large tool, 

 8 inches long, combining the lateral curve with a chipped 

 end. Another one might call a sort of hammer stone. It 



