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received Chronology as to the date of Man's birth. 

 It is calculated that, at the depth at which they were 

 found, some thousands of years must have elapsed 

 since they were placed there, and it is at once pro- 

 nounced that these rough spear-heads were fashioned 

 by the hand of Man, I have seen a considerable 

 number of them, and I think that they bear out this 

 opinion. They are uniformly made, of exactly the 

 same size and pattern, and very well adapted for the 

 purposes of that description of weapon. If they were 

 copied in iron and fixed to a staff they would be 

 formidable in hand-to-hand encounters ; they, appear 

 to have been chiselled out of flint or some hard dark 

 stone with considerable neatness of execution, and 

 bear the marks of the chisel over their whole surface. 

 Now these rude weapons were not found in proximity 

 to any relics of man ; there was nothing beyond their 

 own construction to show that they were his work. 

 They were immeasurably inferior in beauty of design 

 or workmanship to a honeycomb or a thousand other 

 natural productions, and yet Geologists at once came 

 to the conclusipn that they were of human produc- 

 tion. There is a character of design stamped upon 

 them, and the workmanship is of such a nature as at 

 once to lead us irresistibly to such a belief; and yet 



