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foundation of history must necessarily depend on the facts origin- 

 ally collected by annalists and chronologers, and which have been 

 subsequently arranged and compared with other evidence by the 

 historian. The lecturer concluded with a reference to the special 

 ends and objects of history. 



A Taper will he read on 2nd December entitled 



IS IT A EACT? 



By Mr. W. Pengelly, f.r.s. etc. 

 PROGRAMME. 



l^ECESsiTT for verification. — Russian scandal. — Is it a fact that 

 flint implements are manufactured at Westward Ho, and sold to 

 Museums at a great price ? — that there is a subterranean passage 

 from Kent's Hole, Torquay, to the County of Kent? — that the 

 Fellows of the Anthropological Society believe in the Ape-origin 

 of man ? — that Marazion is the oldest town in Cornwall, and was 

 named by Jews shipwrecked there from the fleets of Hiram and 

 Solomon ? — that human skulls have been found in the Devonshire 

 limestones — that toads and frogs have been found alive in solid 

 rocks? — that newspaper reports are trustworthy? — that Florence 

 of Worcester stated that St. Michael's Mount, in Cornwall, was 

 once in a wood six miles from the sea? — that Carew was the 

 earliest writer who mentioned the supposed Cornish name of the 

 Mount? — that a silicified basket of eggs had been found forty 

 feet deep in solid chalk? — that the name "Robert Hedges" is 

 inscribed on the Stalagmite in Kent's Hole ? — that the concurrent 

 and independent testimony of credible witnesses must be taken 

 as conclusive evidence? — that the scrapings of Irish books are an 

 antidote to the poisonous bite of serpents? — that the Bernicle 

 Goose is developed from the Duck Barnacle ? — that current stories 

 and anecdotes are trustworthy? — that the public ultimately 

 disbelieve the continued cry of ''Wolf"? 



