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borhood, which were without necessary connection with the mine, and 
shown by slight depressions full of broken and incomplete pieces and 
chips and flakes, the débris of the shop. Worked objects of deer 
horn and bone were found, and the pottery was fine and well modeled. 
The workshops may have been huts occupied as habitations, more or 
less temporary, by the workmen. They were probably made of some 
light material, of which the traces are still found on the surface. The 
special characteristics of the objects found in these workshops showed 
that there had been a division of labor, and that each workman con- 
fined himself largely to the manufacture of asingle implement. These 
workshops had furnished prehistoric flint implements to Hainault, 
Brabant, and possibly to the North of France. 
M. de Munck insisted upon the last point. He had found fifteen _ 
neolithic stations in direct relation with Spiennes, which were divided 
among forty-five communes. The location of these workshops had 
given rise to a network of roads of communication that have remained 
in usage for a long time after. M. de Munck prophesied that searches 
of the same order, if pursued in other places and localities, and wit 
other materials which composed the industries of the age of stone, 
would give results of much interest and benefit. 
Mr. Thomas Wilson continued the discussion by a description of the 
quarry at Flint Ridge, near Newark, in Licking County, Ohio. In a 
space ten miles long and three miles wide had been found a thick bank 
or stratum of silex from four to twelve feet in thickness, which the 
aborigines had attacked by means of wells dug through the surface soil 
and clay. After piercing this soil or clay they broke down through 
the stratum of silex by means of fire, and extracted it in great blocks. 
The flint which was thus obtained was broken up in its place, and was 
spread around over the surface of the entire plateau, where its remains 
were found in many workshops, and the implements thus made were to 
be found disseminated throughout the entire state of Ohio. 
M. Cartailhac described the exploitations made by himself and M. 
Boule in the mines of flint at Mur-de-Barrez, in Aveyron, of which he 
had given reproduction which was exhibited at the exposition. He 
said that similar wells or shafts had been found by Baron de Baye in the 
Department of Marne, and also many years since by Cuvier and Bron- 
gniart in the Chalk of Meudon. 
Prince Poutjatine, one of the delegates from Russia, presented to 
the congress a superb collection gathered from the north of Moscow, 
near Bologoje, district of Waldai, province of Novogorod. There were 
a number of polished stone hatchets of various dimensions, but 

