JET. 49.] JAMES WYATT. 163 



Abbeville proceedings. The implement question is, I think, 

 now as clear there as at Amiens. On my first visit I myself 

 got three knives or flakes from the flint-bed under the Sable 

 Aigre. On my last visit the workmen procured four more for 

 me from the same bed, and you now have obtained five more. You 

 say you reached the Chalk. Did you meet with the bed of sub- 

 angular gravel immediately over it ? I just reached it, but did 

 not traverse it. It is the lowest bed which you saw at the Porte 

 Marcade. 



With regard to Mautort, there can, I think, be little doubt 

 of the occurrence of marine shells. At Ducastel's pit a little 

 boy, hearing my inquiry, said, " Oh yes, I have seen (using the 

 common name for Littorina littorea, which I forget) " come out 

 of the bottom of the pit." 



The pits you saw at Maneil were those which I visited. Were 

 the men at work when you were there ? 



The pit at Epagne is on the hill on the road to the pits at St 

 Gilles. 



I still have my doubts about the shells at Drucat. One frag- 

 ment was a mere hollow piece of white flint. The sands are 

 bent in all the pipes there, but I did not clearly see the connec- 

 tion between the indentation where the flint was found with any 

 pipe at present exposed. I have a rude white implement from 

 the upper beds. I have been all the way up the valley from 

 Abbeville to St Eiquier. It is full of brick-earth, but no gravel 

 till at St Eiquier and that very angular and earthy. I also 

 went to Ouen, but the pits there are now filled up. They were 

 in the valley near the brook, and three to four inches deep. 

 Ever truly yours, J. PKESTWTCH. 



The following letter is of special interest : it an- 

 nounces the discovery of flint implements in the very 

 spot indicated by the two friends : 



J. Evans to J. Prestwicli. NASH MILLS, April 18, 1861. 



MY DEAE PKESTWICH, Jubilate ! Wyatt has found the flint 

 implements we have so long been looking for at Bedford. I en- 

 close his letter and sketch, which please return, and am writing 

 to him that I hope to be at Bedford at 10.30 on Saturday, if it 



