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for the slaughter of which the sling would, perhaps, be the 
most useful implement. 
Another circumstance must be mentioned with regard to 
the localities in which these flint instruments are found. It 
appears that in particular fields in the immediate neighbour- 
hood of Bridlington, they are met with in much greater 
quantities than in other places — in such quantities, indeed, 
that I am assured that a person who looks for them can 
hardly, at any time, walk across one of these particular fields 
without picking up one or two implements of chipped flint. 
I must, in connection with this part of the subject, call your 
attention to other pieces of flint, which are evidently, in some 
cases, the chippings from the flints out of which the other 
implements have been made, or the rough beginnings of 
implements which were either spoilt in the making, .or were 
never completed. These seem to prove that the implements 
I have been describing were made in the district where they 
•were used. I understand that these fragments and imperfect 
implements are found chiefly in these same fields to which I 
have just alluded, and I am, therefore, led irresistibly to the 
conclusion that these spots are the sites of establishments of 
people whose occupation it was to make the objects in 
question, and that these fragments, &c, are the refuse of 
their workshops (if we may apply such a term to them,) 
mixed, perhaps, with the remains of their stock, when they 
may have been obliged to leave the place through hostile 
invasion, or for other reasons at which we cannot now even 
guess. 
To whom, we may ask, do these curious implements 
belong? I think, when we consider the locality, their 
primitive character, and the other circumstances of the 
case, we can have no hesitation in ascribing them to the 
same people whom Ptolemy places in this very spot under 
the name of Parisi ; and I believe that they belong to a 
