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an after-finishing for sale. — Eude as they are, and this is one of the 
points we dwell upon in proof of their antiquity, they were used in 
the state in which we find them, for otherwise we should find the 
finished examples elsewhere, which as yet, at any rate, we have done 
nowhere. AVe find stone and flint celts, polished and ground ; but 
those, as we long enough ago observed in this journal, were used by 
the broad flat end. The large fossil Hint-implements were all worked 
to a point, and which point, contrary to anything we know of the 
use of any other stone tool, ancient or modern, was the part used. 
There is thus, besides the absence of chipping, one positive character 
at least which separates the fossil implements entirely from any other 
eflbrt of savage industry. "Will M. Gras assert he has ever seen a 
pointed weapon either ground or polished ? 
M. Gras further lays great stress on M. Gaudry having found 
nine worked flints on the same level. We might speak of levels in 
regularly stratified deposits, what levels are there in a gravel-bed ? 
Taking it for granted, however, nine were found on one level, is 
that number so large as to cause surprise ? If — why may we not 
indulge in conjunctions? — if there were a fishing-station on the 
spot, would nine be a large number to be presumed to be lost during 
the sojourn of the fishermen there ? Or is there not an infinity of 
incidents which might bring together so trifling a lot ? 
Finally, to close our comments, may we not justly ask M. Gras if 
the flint implements belong to historic times ? Who were the men 
that used them ?* 
NOTES 0^ THE GEOLOGY OF MAIDSTOXE. 
By ay. H. Bensted, Esq. 
The outcroppings of the Cretaceous strata in the valley of the 
Medway, the great quarries in the lower beds of the greensand for 
the much-used Kentish ragstone, the extensive chalk-pits at Burham 
and other places, the pottery clay-pits and the numerous brickfields, 
aff'ord excellent facilities for the observation of the geological struc- 
ture of Maidstone and the surrounding country. 
By taking the road from Bochester, through Maidstone, to Linton, 
the outcrops of the Chalk and its subordinate beds are passed over in 
succession across their line of strike. 
* The letters from Mr. Peacock, ]\[r. Evans, and Mr. Blake, in last week's ' Parthe- 
non,' which has been published since our remarks were in type, show that we have by 
no means exhausted, even in our extended article, the refutations which can be given to 
M. Gras' opinions. 
