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desirability of the place for fishing, or on account of the 

 numerous flints contained in the gravels being found convenient 

 and suitable for the manufacture of the rude implements which 

 formed so important a part of his equipment ; or he may have 

 put in an appearance here from some other cause beyond our 

 finding out. 



Flixton Plac;, 



Ballymena, 26th May, 1886. 

 Dear Sirs, 



I have your letter of 24th instant saying that I have been appointed on a 

 committee to investigate the gravels at the Curran, Lame, and determine the position 

 of the worked flints in those gravels. I am sorry that I shall not be able to go to Larne 

 on Saturday, 29th inst., the day appointed for the investigation, as owing to Saturday 

 being our market day it is impossible to get away. I expect, however, you will have 

 no difficulty. If you take any of the sections that are open and clear away the rubbish 

 till you get a clean face, and then clear away the undisturbed gravel slowly, you will 

 gradually come upon flakes and cores at depths down to twelve feet and even more. I 

 have found them at a depth of eighteen feet. On one occasion, when I took down 

 Mr. Kinahan and five or six other gentlemen, some of whom were also officers of the 

 Geological Survey, they found flakes and cores without much labour, in situ, at depth 

 of twelve and thirteen feet. 



I would also advise you to examine the section running from the cross street near 

 where pottery was once made and see how the boulder clay is mixed up with flakes, 

 cores, and boulders. Wednesdays are also busy days with me, but if your committee 

 meeting had been on any other days of the week I should have made it a point to attend. 



Yours faithfully, 



W. J. KNOWLES. 



Messrs. Wm. Swanston, F.G.S., and 



F. W. Lockwood, Secretaries B.N.F.C. 



Flixton Place, 

 Ballymena, 28th May, 1886. 

 Dear Sir, 



You have perfect liberty to read my letter to the committee if you think it 

 desirable to do so. Perhaps sometime at your convenience you would kindly take the 

 trouble of letting me know the result of your investigation. 



Pray don't forget to look at the section farthest inland, where pottery and brick 

 were made. You will see there a section about five feet in depth resting on blue clays 



