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to meet the lively demand caused by the authentic discoveries 

 made by M. Boucher de Perthes and others in the Valley of 

 the Somme. Mr. Evans, whose verdict on this point is of 

 the highest authority, states that a year ago he purchased 

 ' an indisputably forged drift-implement from one of the 

 terrassiers of Abbeville.' Numerous other instances of the 

 same kind might be cited if necessary. Some of the imple- 

 ments from Moulin-Quignon and Mautort, professing to be 

 ancient, were upon the internal evidence as certainly modern 

 counterfeits as an inference of this nature could be esta- 

 blished, in default of the testimony of eye-witnesses to the 

 act of manufacturing them. That the traffic in counterfeit 

 haches is remunerative to some of those concerned in it is 

 sufficiently proved by the fact, that five francs are commonly 

 demanded of strangers at Amiens and Abbeville for the 

 coveted privilege of detaching from its bed a hache professing 

 to be found in situ. It is within my knowledge, from the 

 direct statements of the parties, that this has occurred to 

 two Englishmen during the month of last April : to the one 

 at Amiens, to the other at Abbeville. Each was asked, and 

 each paid, five francs. In the latter case, the specimen was 

 submitted to the Conference as one of the series of counter- 

 feits from Moulin-Quignon ; it having been regarded in that 

 light when brought to England and examined by Mr. Evans, 

 Mr. Prestwich, and myself. The great demand for flint- 

 implements arises from the number of strangers who now 

 visit Amiens and Abbeville, attracted by the general interest 

 which the subject has of late years excited. The supply of 

 genuine implements proved insufficient, and the natural result 

 followed. Considering the facility with which counterfeits 

 can be made, half a franc per hache would upon a consider- 

 able sale be amply remunerative, apart from the larger sum 

 derived from specimens professing to occur in situ. 



2. Intrinsic Evidence of the Jaw. — So much time was spent 

 on the question of the flints, which occupied the greater part 

 of the three meetings of the Conference at Paris, that little 

 space remained for the examination of the principal object, 

 the jaw itself ; and this part of the case was gone through in 

 a much more summary manner. The 'detached molar,' 

 covered with matrix of the ' black seam,' which had been 

 sawn up in London, and upon which so much weight was at 

 the time vested, was, by the consent of both sides, withdrawn 

 from the case, as being open to question on the score of 

 identification. But it gave rise to a discussion as to the 

 value of the quantitative presence of gelatine as a test of fossil 

 teeth. Two specimens, from the Diluvium of Anvers, were 

 produced by M. Delesse, the one the canine and the other 



