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make the curt remark — you made thesa. Jack was caught and 

 had to confess that he did make them. For a consideration he 

 showed the Professor how he made them. His tool was what 

 was called a " gate-hasp." The specimens made were taken by 

 the professor to a collector of stone implements — he was in 

 rapture at the sight of the arrow-heads, could tell all about 

 them, assigning them even to the proper period. He was 

 shocked when informed that they were only a day or two old. 

 Subsequently Jack made a full confession, which was published 

 in a pamphlet. From this it appeared that for a number of 

 years he had manufactured and sold flint implements to 

 museums and collectors in Great Britain and Ireland. In regard 

 to fossils he said that he found it easier to make them than to 

 find them. He was thus paid for his impositions. After his 

 confession his former purchasers in many cases paid him to 

 distinguish the fictitious from the genuine. He also sold as 

 very rare and valuiible ammonites — snake-stones, (so-called) 

 with snakes' heads — fabricated. After his confession and 

 -exhibitions of handicraft, Prof. Tennant paid him to attend a 

 meeting of the Geologists' association, when he showed his 

 skill in making to order, arrow-heads of as good forms as those 

 of the " stone age." The Prof, himself seemed to regard the 

 Abbeville specimens as of the same character as 'flint Jack's 

 productions, Prof. Prestwich first brought under notice the 

 flint implements, discovered by M. Boucher de Perthes, at 

 Abbeville, in the Diluvium of the Somme, and Sir Charles 

 Lyell was his associate in the advocacy of their preadamic 

 character, and their consequent evidence of the " Antiquity of 

 Man." Prestwich and Lyell, frQui an examination of the 

 deposits in which the flint implements were found, and their 

 relations to the under lying chalk, deduced certain conclusions 

 in reference to the character and age of the deposits Avhich 

 would refer the implements and their makers to newer Miocene, 

 or older Pliocene periods. Mr. Taylor, F. G. S., made subse- 

 quent, more elaborate, and exhaustive examinations of the same 

 region with the aid of the Engineer-in-Chief of the Northern 

 Railway and his staff", which led him to conclusions altogether 

 at variance with those of Prestwich and Lyell. These appear 



