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deserve, the serious attention of the antiquary, who is com- 
bining with the geologist to decypher these dark pages of 
our race. The aid that it is in my power to give to these 
inquiries is indeed but small ; nevertheless, such facts, bearing 
upon the subject, as I have met with, I feel bound to record. 
Whilst engaged in examining the excavation at Wortley, 
where the bones of the Hippopotamus were found, I 
inquired if any works of man were ever found along with 
the trunks of trees and the bones. The workmen whom 
I addressed replied that a brickmaker who had long been 
engaged in the business, had found a hewn stone in the 
clay of the adjoining field. On repairing to the house 
of this person, who lived near, he shewed me the stone, 
and also two pieces of pottery which he found at the 
same place. He gave me a straightforward account of 
the place in which they were found, five feet deep in a six 
foot bed of clay. They were not in juxta-position, but at 
some little distance in the same excavation. On being- 
questioned whether they might not have been inserted into 
the clay from above, he replied that this could not have been 
the case, as there was not the least appearance of the bed of 
clay having been disturbed from above, and he stated that 
they were silted over with clay m the same manner as the 
pieces of trees with which they were accompanied. It should 
here be borne in mind that these objects were regarded by 
the men as unmeaning curiosities, that they were not palmed 
upon me, but were sought out by me. I cannot, therefore, 
in the least doubt the good faith of tbe man. He may have 
been in error as to the peculiar circumstances in which they 
were found ; but in this case the other workmen were also 
in error, as they separately gave the same account of these 
relics as himself. The hewn stone is a rounded mass of 
millstone grit, of an egg shape, truncated at one end ; the 
flat surface has a round central hole, and is worn smooth by 
