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“The implements have been found in such positions that 
“ the idea is sometimes forced on one that all the makers of the 
“implements suddenly left the place in fear of some impending 
“ danger.” 
He believes he is able to divide Paleolithic man into three 
divisions. The men of the floor were probably, though savage, 
a peaceful and intelligent community. The abundance of 
scrapers shews that they scraped skin for clothing. Few of the 
implements are suited for weapons; and nearly all are obviously 
tools. 
Of the men of the next underlying gravel he said they 
were ruder, “yet, as one finds undoubted scrapers. . . . it 
“must be conceded the men knew how to dress skins. It is 
“not easy to form an idea of the men who made the oldest 
“tools (in the basement gravels); they were savages of low 
“degree, with instruments suitable only for hacking and 
“battering. As no scrapers or knife-forms are to be found (in 
“that gravel) the men probably knew nothing of dressing skins, 
“and so went unclothed.” 
Year by year the area widens, and the number found 
greatly increases. The most recent addition is from the 
neighbourhood of Ightham, in Kent, by Mr B. Harrison, and 
it has been fully described by Professor Prestwich in the 
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, May, 1889. 
Last Autumn I had the pleasure of seeing Mr Harrison’s 
collection, and he afterwards went over the ground to shew me 
where most of them were found, and the next day I visited 
Professor Prestwich, at Shoreham, who gave me additional 
information. 
Within five miles of Ightham, upwards of 400 specimens 
were found, and at elevations varying from 110 to 600 feet 
above the sea level ; but only 6 were found over 500 feet. The 
largest number—161—was at a range of 390 to 460 feet. 
The most interesting feature in connection with these 
Paleolithic implements is the conclusion that so cautious an 
observer as Professor Prestwich has arrived at—“ that the facts 
“< described carry back these rude works of early man to a period 
