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different groups. In form they simulate anvils or even 

 planes, but they differ from these in the coarseness of the 

 flaking, and in the presence of the crust of the flint on 

 the face from the plane of w hich the blows were struck, 

 which at once disposes of the notion that these imple- 

 ments could have been used for cutting purposes. In 

 1874, Lartet and Christy* suggested that similar Moustier 

 specimens were used in the production of fire, and stated 

 that fire was obtainable not only by the friction of pyrites 

 and flint, but also from two flints, and that in Norfolk and 

 Suffolk less than 100 years ago fire was obtained in this 

 manner, by striking two flints rapidly against one another 

 in the presence of dry moss. 



(40) This method is apparently practiced by certain 

 primitive tribes ; on Bathurst Island the Australianf 

 aborigines were seen with two pieces of white flint and a 

 tinder of the inner bark of the papyrus. 



(41) With reference to the use of such fire stones by 

 the Tasmanians, Furneaux \ reports to have found in one 

 of the huts, " the stone they strike fire with and tinder 

 made of bark, but of what tree could not be distinguished." 



(42) La Billardiere§ states that in Tasmania he "met 

 with pieces of flint (sic) and fragments of the bark of a 

 tree as soft as the best tinder," and that " these savages 

 undoubtedly produced fire by striking two pieces of flint 

 together." 



(43) Lieutenant G. Mortimer!! states that in some of 



*■ " Reliquiae Aquitanicae," pp. 85, 86, 138 — 140. 



t"The Daily Life of the Tasmanians." J. Bonwick, London, 1870, 

 p. 21. 



:t: Cook's Second Voyage, Hook i, Chapter \in. 



§"An account of a voyage in search of la Perouse." f. J. de la 

 Dillardiere, London, 1800. 



II "Observations and remarks made during a voyage to the Islands of 

 Teneriffe, etc." Cj. Mortimer, London, 1791. 



