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which have been left, as it seems to me, on purpose, for ornament, 

 or superstition, or to make the tool bear some resemblance to an 

 animal's face or what not; perhaps simply to resemble an eye. 

 The eye is a remarkable object, and would take early man's fancy, 

 as it did the ancient Egyptians', as witness the eye in hieroglyphics, 

 and the eyes manufactured of earthenware. Then, again, a number 

 of implements have a narrow, pointed tongue of crust running 

 towards the point of the tool down the middle of the face of the 

 implement. This seems to me to have been left partly at least 

 for artistic purposes. Why not ? Quantities of flint nodules 

 have been made use of, and — I speak with Imted breath, or, rather, 

 write with diffident pen, as only a beginner among geologists — but 

 it seems to me that whilst the men of the river silt had quantities 

 of gravel to hand and used it just as they picked it up, the men, 

 on the other hand, who lived nearly on the chalk had comparatively 

 little gravel to hand, or at any rate had readier access to chalk 

 tiint. Perhaps this will account for the freer, handsomer flaking 

 of their implements. 



Among the river silt tools is one which has been flaked and 

 re-flaked with minuteness over an unusually large amount of its 

 surface and edges. That these men could produce the minutest 

 work is evident, but they did not as a rule care to expend time 

 and labour on producing a stone covered with such handiwork, 

 but only to do sufficient of it for their immediate purpose. 



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