EXTINCT ANIMALS 



ment of this kind was found more than a hundred 

 years ago in the gravel in Gray's Inn Lane, in 



Fig. 58. — Photographs of two Hint implements of tlie JPalseo- 

 lithic age, obtained from the gravel-pit at St. Acheuil near 

 Amiens, by the author, in 1870. 



London, and was figured and described ; but its 



great antiquity was not recognized at that time. 



In the middle of the last century, attention 



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