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 terjnination of the high 
ground. 
If you think the above worthy of the notice of the Society, you wOl please 
lay it before them. 
I am. Sir, with great respect, your faithful humble servant, 
John Trere." 
In the cases of both the above mentioned flint-implements we have distinct 
records of their havmg 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 reaUy fossil, we wiU briefly aUude 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 Zk 
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 wiU compare 
