FOSSIL FLINT IMPLEMENTS. 
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the centre, at the same time that they are gronped in concentric zones.* 
Central symmetrical arrangement may visibly occur in minerals of 
very diverse composition. When it is tolerably regular, as in the 
case of the globular minerals, it gives a radial structure. 
(To be Continued.) 
THE EyrDE:N"CES OF THE GEOLOGICAL AGE AT^D 
HmL4N ]\L^TJFACTUilE OF THE FOSSIL FLIOT 
IMPLEMENTS.f 
By the Editor. 
( Continued from vol. iii., jpage 408.^ 
Amiens and Abbeville do not, however, enjoy a monopoly in these flint imple- 
ments ; they are found, apparently, all over the earth. At any rate, we can boast 
in our land of such treasures, and we can proudly record that the first discovered 
specimens belong to England. Let Amiens and Abbeville by all means be 
commemorated as the scenes of M. Boucher de Perthes' persevering investiga- 
tions, which have furnished the incitement to the present remarkable inquiry — 
let the names of Boucher de Perthes, Prestwich, Falconer, Flower, and Evans, 
be duly honoured as the pioneers of the investigation ; 
but let us also think of Hoxne, Grays, Uford, Maid- 
stone, Stanway, and the scores of other places where 
mammahan bones have been found in our owh land — 
and, let us hope that our youn^ geologists wiU set to 
work, and reap a rich harvest in the yet ungarnered 
fields. Does not this first recorded implement — this 
earhest discovered relic — (fig. 5) treasured and pre- 
served in the Sloaue collection, the nucleus of the British 
Museum, and entered in that old catalogue, two hun- 
dred years ago — encourage them. Does it not say in 
unmistakable language " Under your feet these relics 
may be found ?" 
There is another of these spear-shaped flints^ which 
has obtained a great deal of notoriety in the late dis- 
cussions. It was found at Hoxne, in Suffolk — a place 
Fig. 5.— Flint Implement memorable in the history of the good king Edmund, 
SeSoa 'CswS: saint and martyr-and was described, and figured 
lection, British Museum, in the " Archseologia," (see cut Si, p. 20^, by Mr. Frere, 
Size 7 inches by 4 inches, the finder, who, with remarkable acuteness, seems to 
have fully comprehended the value and true bearing of his discovery. His 
paper is, even now, an excellent epitome of the subject ; and we give it at 
length, just as it was read in 1797, before the Society of Antiquaries of London. 
* Recherches sur les Roches Globulenses : par M. Delesse. (Memoires de la 
Soc. Geol., 2 ser., t. iv., p. 301.) 
t Being an illustrated explanatorv article of Mr. Mackie'a Greological Diagram, 
No. VI. 
