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which her father, Mr. Johnson, was for some time 
Governor. 
Palzeolithic man, or man who was contemporaneous 
with the Post-pliocene fauna, the mammoth, the cave 
bear, etc., is here represented by specimens of his rude 
and rough handiwork in the form of flint implements 
fashioned out of lumps of flint chipped into the form 
of acelt or adze. There is a large collection of these 
rude implements, fashioned by Paleolithic man, found 
at Melford, Lakenheath, Thetford, Santon Downham, 
Broom Hill, and other places, on the slopes of what 
was a broad river when, in Post-pliocene times, Britain 
stood 600 feet above its present level, and the streams 
now discharging themselves on the Eastern coast joined 
with those of the continent to form one vast 
river flowing through the Valley of the German 
Ocean (see Boyd Dawkins’ Zarly Man in Britain). 
The rude weapons found on ancient river terraces, on 
the banks of the Ouse in Norfolk and Suffolk, are 
those of River Drift man, who “ was a hunter of a very 
low order, but not lower than the modern Australian, 
and from his wide range over the Old World was 
probably of vastly greater antiquity than his successors 
in Europe,” the Cave men; for while “there is no 
reason for the belief that the River Drift man possessed 
any artistic skill,” the Cave man “‘ possessed a singular 
talent for representing the animals he hunted.” | 
A wide interval separates the River Drift or Palzeo- 
lithic man from the Neolithic man, whose productions, 
even at an early stage of the period, indicate a decided 
advance upon those of his predecessors; but at 
a later stage the polished implements and _ skilfully- 
fashioned arrow-heads show that he had made even 
greater advances in useful arts. Specimens of the tools 
and weapons of this period, found at Heckingham, 
Martlesham, Diss, Tasburgh, Grundisburgh, Belton, 
