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ordinarily be made by water T and Mr. Gray leaves out the 

 words in italics, making Mr. Knowles speak of the gravels as a 

 whole, while he only spoke of the majority of the sections he 

 had the opportunity of examining. Besides, Mr. Knowles gave 

 it plainly to be understood in his paper that the subjects referred 

 to in the paragraph in question were to be further studied, and 

 that they did not in the interim influence his conclusion ; yet 

 Mr. Gray takes no notice of this, but proceeds to refute the 

 extracts as given by himself, regardless of the before- mentioned 

 qualifying passages. Considering the stand taken by Mr. Gray 

 as a corrector of loose and careless statements, Mr. Knowles 

 considered that this matter should be set right, as many persons 

 believed he had spoken of the gravels and raised beach at Larne 

 in a sense entirely different from what is stated in his paper, 

 Mr. Knowles then traced the history and change of opinion 

 regarding the worked flints from 1867, and proceeded to show 

 that various authors had shown that the worked flints were 

 found through the body of the gravels. Extracts were read 

 from a paper by the late G. V. Dunoyer, M.R.I. A., to the Royal 

 Geological Society, i8th December, 1868, that the worked flints 

 were found in the raised beach, Ballyholme, six to eight feet 

 from the surface. Mr. G. H. Kinahan, M.R.I.A., writing to 

 the Belfast papers in May, 1884, says he found a flake in situ at 

 a depth of over twelve feet at Larne. Mr. J. H. Staples, in a 

 paper before the Field Club in March, 1869, says distinctly that 

 the worked flints are found in the gravel of the raised beach at 

 Holywood ; and in the Proceedings of the Liverpool Geological 

 Society for 1880-81 there is a paper on the " Worked Flints of 

 the Raised Beaches of the North-East coast of Ireland,'' by Mr. 

 F. Archer, in which the author states that from watching the 

 men removing the whole bank of gravels for ballast at Kilroot, 

 he became convinced that many flakes occurred in the lower 

 part of the bank, but that owing to doubts expressed by Mr. 

 Gray he would not publish his opinion until he had confirmed 

 it by a re-examination with great care, upon which occasion he 

 obtained from the gravels on the first day's search twenty-eight 

 specimens, Mr. Knowles also quoted the Rev, G. R. Buick, 



