376 ALDERBURY. [l894. 



the presence of man in the river Drift period, so now in what an 

 Irishman would call the advance backwards, Salisbury will prove 

 equally strong, and I trust furnish good evidence to convince 

 some of the sceptics, who don't know what a worked flint is, even 

 when they see it before them. 



As far as the fact of the discovery of worked flints in the 

 southern Drift of Alderbury is concerned, make any use you like 

 of the information. 



What do you think of the evidence of fire ? For the last 20 

 years I have been hunting in our Drift Gravels for it, but the 

 specimen from Alderbury is the first that has yet turned up. 

 Have you been more fortunate and met with burnt flints in any 

 Drift Gravels under such circumstances that precluded the pos- 

 sibility of their having come from the surface ? 



Amongst the gravel at Alderbury I have met with a few 

 small pebbles sea-rolled pebbles, of sarsen stone quite distinct 

 as regards rolling from the ordinary large sarsen boulders. 

 What old sea-shore do you think they probably came from ? 

 The much smaller quartz pebbles are very, very scarce at Aider- 

 bury. With kind regards, yours very truly, 



H. P. BLACKMORE. 



But, alas ! Prestwich had soon again to pay the 

 penalty of age, in seeing one after another of those he 

 loved called away before him. The death of his sister, 

 Mrs Russell Scott, to whom throughout life he had been 

 tenderly attached, occurred in August. She was the 

 little sister whom her brother (not two years her senior) 

 used to escort out on Saturdays when the two children 

 were at their respective schools in Paris. In many 

 respects she resembled him, in that quick intelligence 

 and wide grasp of mind so unusual in a woman : it was 

 rare to meet any one so gifted, who at the same time 

 possessed extraordinary sweetness of temper. Her 

 illness had been hopeless and protracted, yet when the 

 end came his distress was not less poignant. " No 



