FOSSIL FLINT IMPLEMENTS. 



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manner in which they lie would lead to the persuasion that it was a place of 

 their manufacture, and not of their accidental deposit ; and the number of them 

 was so great that the man who carried on the brick-work told me that before 

 he was aware of their being objects of curiosity he had emptied baskets full of 

 them into the ruts of the adjoining road. It may be conjectured that the dif- 

 ferent strata were formed by inundations happening at different periods and 

 bringing down in succession the different materials of which they consist, to 

 which I can only say, that the ground in question does not lie at the foot of 

 any higher ground, but does itself overhang a tract of boggy earth, which ex- 

 tends under the fourth stratum : so that it should rather seem that torrents had 

 washed away the incumbent strata, and left the bog-earth bare, than that the 

 bog-earth was covered by them, especially as the strata appear to be disposed 

 horizontally and present their edges to the abrupt termination of the high 

 ground. 



If you think the above worthy of the notice of the Society, you will please 

 lay it before them. 



I am, Sir, with great respect, your faithful humble servant, 



John Fkeke." 



In the cases of both the above mentioned flint-implements we have distinct 

 records of their having been associated with mammalian bones. 



Having gone briefly but succinctly through some of the principal evidences 

 that these worked-flints have been extracted from true geological formations, 

 in fact that they are really fossil, we will briefly allude to the general misnomer 

 of " celt," as applied to these relics. 



The polar bear who stopped in his pursuit of the arctic voyager to turn in- 

 side out with his fumbling paws the worsted glove which the sailor had dropped 

 to attract the beast's attention and facilitate his own escape might not have 

 had a more puzzling article for his mental capacity than geologists and anti- 



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Size, 9£ x Z\ 



Figs. 10— 13.— Stone Implements from Guernsey. In the collection of Professor Tennant. 



quaries have had in these implements. "Celts" they certainly are not, 

 whatever their former use may have been, as anyone may see who will compare 



