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admitted that he had exhibited a lot of things and then did not 

 mind how many fibs he told, so long as he made the people laugh. 

 Mr. WiJlett, on the present occasion, had not only shown them a 

 lot of things, but he had said a good deal, which, at all events, 

 would make them think. He was delighted with the paper, 

 concerning the general conclusions of which he had no idea until 

 just hearing them from Mr. Willett. He had personally visited 

 the hill, but had not descended the pit, as he was alone and found 

 no workmen near. From what he saw, however, nothing struck 

 him so much as the apparently extraordinary industry of the early 

 people who dug so good a pit so well and with such capital sides 

 and lateral chambers. He was also much astonished at the filling 

 up of the pits. What could one imagine to be the object of the 

 savage in seeking to fill the pits up again ? He gathered from Mr. 

 Willett that he thought there had been a gradual filling up of the 

 pits ; but he was not quite satisfied upon this point. 



Mr. Willett : They must have got rid of the excavated chalk 

 in some way. 



Ml'. G. Scott mentioned that a gun flint manufactory was 

 still industriously carried on at Brandon, in SufiFolk; the flints 

 being exported to Spain and to South America for the use of the 

 Spaniards, to the Arabs, and to some parts of Russia. 



Mr. BiGGE said the debris excavated from Mr Tyndall's pit 

 could be seen from Worthing i-ailway station. What was to be 

 done with it ? Was it to be allowed to remain to puzzle people 

 3,000 years hence ? 



Mr. Willett said it would I'emain for the present. 



Mr. Payne suggested whether the names of the farms in the 

 vicinity might not throw some light on the previous condition of 

 the country round about Cissbury ? For instance, there were 

 Bi-oadwater and Great Pool farms. 



Mr. Haselwood said that really the paper which Mr. Eniest 

 Willett had read was so exhaustive that little remained to be said 

 on the subject. If he might throw out a j^ractical suggestion it 

 would be that a Brandon flint napper might be brought to 

 Cissbury to test the quality of the flints there. In the case of the 



