232 NETHER LOCHABER. 



link with a people of an antiquity as remote as those of Abbeville, 

 it would be rash positively to assert ; but the flint workers, some 

 remains of whose labours have, as we have stated, been recently 

 brought to light in our neighbourhood, must have lived at a period 

 when the face of the country was geologically very different from 

 what it is now ; and remembering how slowly as a rule geological 

 changes are brought about, we shall probably be still within the 

 mark, if approximately we fix the era of the earliest flint workers 

 at something like ten thousand years ago, and in the case of 

 Abbeville, Continental archa3ologists have had no hesitation in 

 suggesting a still remoter antiquity. 



