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complex. The majority of the drift implements are clearly something 

 more than the first efforts of an unpractised hand ; they show., on 

 the contrary, signs of a comparatively long development, and it may 

 be fairly argued that their ruder prototypes must exist somewhere. 



Fig. 5. — Axe-liead with hollowed 

 edge, Denmark. (Fig. 96, p. 89 

 of Giiide.) t uat. size. 



Fig. 6. — Flint chisel, Denmark. 

 (Fig. 97, p. 89 of Guide.) 

 i uat. size. 



It was to be expected that they should have escaped notice for a longer 

 time than the typical Paleeoliths, if only because they must necessarily 

 be more difficult to distinguish from the naturally fractured flints. 



Fig. 7. 



-Chipped knife of chert, Sheikh Hamadeh, Egypt. 

 (Fig. 101, p. 95 of Guide.) i nat. size. 



" We may draw similar conclusions from a consideration of the 

 stone implements of the most primitive savage tribes. The knives 

 ■of the now extinct Tasmanian aborigines were of the rudest 

 description, generally chipped only on one side, and quite devoid 

 of symmetry. The Andamanese had implements of a yet more 

 elementary kind, and the Semang, a similar negrito tribe of the 

 Malay Peninsula, are said only to have stone implements in the 



