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Fox found no less than 35) worked flints, exclusive of flakes. This 
and other evidence proved that flint implements cannot be rare in our 
County of Sussex, 
A correspondent wrote to the Brighton Herald in 1869, that 
he had found specimens on Newmarket-hill and other places, und also 
a very fine spear-head at Aldrington. This direction ought to be 
followed up, for a friend of his had found good specimens in the 
neighbourhood of Portslade. Mr. Whitley, the Hon. Sec. of the 
Royal Institution of Cornwall, found, on the top of the chalk cliff, two 
miles west of Beachy Head, four celts. The marks of design on the 
whole were unmistakable, but one of superior workmanship had been 
broken by a blow from a finer pointed implement, ‘I could not,” hesays, 
‘resist the conviction that it, and two other broken celts found near it, 
had probably been broken in battle.” Near Birling Gap, Eastbourne, 
he found very perfect flint knives. On other parts of the South Downs 
he found three polished celts and a large flake ground to a 
cutting edge. Mr, Whitley’s testimony is the more remarkable 
that his article in the Popular Science Review was chiefly devoted 
to show the prevalence of naturally-fractured flints in certain localities, 
chiefly in the North of Ireland, where the chalk had been disturbed by 
volcanic action, and lies buried under masses of basalt. But, whilst he 
went on telling of natural fracture, which we quite admit, but 
only deny that it could be mistaken for human work, he at the same 
time kept finding specimens which he gladly admitted to be true imple- 
ments, This very point referring to the North of Treland was noticed by 
his (Mr. Scott’s) poor friend, Dr. Gedge, who died some monthsago whilst 
acting as physician and naturalist to Sir Samuel Baker’s African expedi- 
tion, some time before Mr. Whitley’s paper appeared. Ina letter to him 
When corresponding about Mr. Wonfor’s paper on “ Flint,” Dr. Gedge 
wrote—‘‘ Talking of fracture and cleavage, I am reminded ‘of the 
columnar fracture of flints occasionally met with. When I was 
examining the chalk in the North of Ireland, between the Giant’s 
Causeway and Londonderry, I noticed that all the flints had passed 
into this allotropic state, furnishing an endless number of flint knives 
to the Belfast folk.” 
The existence of local manufactories of flint-implements was con- 
_ firmed by the discovery at Wookey Hole, where worked flints were 
found, whilst there was no flint to be met with within thirty miles of 
that cave, The discoveries at Kent’s Hole, near Torquay, also showed 
