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The Flint Implemenis of B enter ton and Mil/ord Bill. 117 



at the bottom of which were loose rocks leaving vacant spaces. In one o£ these 

 the bnrial seems to have been made. It was surrounded with the artificial soil. 



The theory of the gentlemen with whom I spoke on the subject was, that the 

 primseval inhabitants of these dwellings brought into them the carcases of the 

 animals they used for food, burning and covering with earth the refuse parts, in 

 order to avoid the smell which, even to their hardened senses, must have been 

 most disagreeable. This would account for the immense accumulation of soil, 

 and the frequent presence of burnt bones and bits of conglomerate of calcined 

 animal matter. 



M. Bonfils has made the best of the few relics that were left of his remarkable 

 discovery. He has restored the skull, which, with the immense thigh bone, I 

 saw in the Mentone Museum. Some of the teeth are left in both upper and 

 under jaw. The crown of them is worn perfectly smooth, suggesting the idea 

 that the game of those olden days must have been tough eating. 



M. Bonfils pointed out what he considered to be some difference between the 

 form of this most ancient skull and that of the present race of man. On so 

 scientific a subject I am wholly unable to speak. Let those who are competent, 

 and wish to judge for themselves, pay a visit to the Mentone Museum, and 

 converse with M . Bonfils. They will have the further opportunity of seeing a 

 most interesting collection of the bones, flints, and other curiosities found in the 

 Mentone caves. 



I am, Dear Mr. Smith, 



Very truly yours. 



Amy U. Caillabd. 



C|e J[Knt |tn]jlmente of §emerlott an^ ^tlfoA 



PALAEOLITHIC implements were first discovered iu this 

 , (Salisbury) district by H. P. Blackmore, Esq., M.D., in 

 September, 1863. 

 On the 14th of September, 1863,^ he first found them in a gravel 

 pit being then worked near the railway arch on the Wilton Road 



> " Flint Chips," by E. T. Stevens, p. 47. 



