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flints finely and regularly notched on the edge, as though for 
saws ; and one or two instruments which appear to have been 
intended for boring. A fine stone axe w r as found by Mr. 
Cape, at Lissett, between Bridlington and Driffield. Flat 
circular pieces of flint, about the size of a half-crown, 
are also rather common, and present all the appearance of 
having been intended to be thrown with a sling, or with a 
stick. 
A comparison of these implements at once impresses us 
w r ith the notion that they belonged to a people whose life was 
simple and uncultivated. They evidently supported them- 
selves upon fish, which were caught with the hook, and upon 
birds and wild animals, which they shot with arrows, or 
struck down with rounded flints thrown from slings. Mr. 
Tindall informs me that the arrow-heads, and heads of 
spears or javelins, are found most abundantly in old 
moor-land on the sides of rather steep hills ; and that when 
such land is first broken up and tilled, they are sometimes 
found scattered about in considerable numbers. It is evident 
that they belonged to a tribe confined within this district, 
because they app'ear not to be found beyond it. Mr. Tindall 
further informs me, from his own experience, that the sling- 
stones are found chiefly in and around Flamborough ; that in 
the neighbourhood of Sewerby, about three miles from Flam- 
borough, the rudest of the arrow-heads are found ; and that, 
as far as his own observation goes, those of more perfect make 
are found furthest inland. This circumstance may be quite 
accidental, and is probably to be explained by the abundance 
or peculiar character of the game which frequented particu- 
lar spots. We should naturally expect to find more of it on 
the edges of the Wolds, and on the borders of the forests, 
than near the shore ; but the cliffs about and above Flam- 
borough have from time immemorial been celebrated for 
the immense number of wild-fowl which resort to them, and 
