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in instances like that in the north of France and elsewhere, 
we are driven to adopt one of two inferences which doubters 
may suggest. Are the flint implements of man's construction, 
or are they extraordinary natural or accidental formations 
of silex ? This latter is so absurd as not to deserve a 
moment's consideration, and therefore no other rational 
conclusion can be arrived at than that of Sir Charles Lyell's, 
that they are of human construction, and were deposited at 
a period coeval with the remains of the extinct pachyderms 
with which they are now found associated. 
If it is still urged that no human bones have yet been found 
in such situations as fully to establish the remote antiquity of 
the human race, or the co-existence of man himself with the 
larger pachyderms, I would refer to the female skeleton 
found by Dr. Buckland, in the Paviland cave, which lay 
extended in the usual position of burial. By the side of the 
thigh bone, where the pocket is worn, was found about two 
handsful of shells of the nerita Uttoralis in a state of 
complete decay. At another part of the skeleton, in contact 
with the ribs, were from forty to fifty fragments of small 
cylindrical ivory rods about four inches in length, also 
portions of ivory rings, and pieces of ivory in process of 
manufacture into some articles, which had been cut by a rude 
instrument, the marks of which remained on the surface. 
Now Dr. Buckland considered this skeleton as coeval with, 
if not anterior to, the Roman invasion of this country ; but 
not antediluvian, as he believed the bones of the elephant, 
rhinoceros, bear, hyaena, and wolf to be, which were found in the 
same cave. When, however, we bear in mind that most of the 
ivory articles were so much decayed as to split longitudinally 
by the separation of the laminae of the tusk out of which 
they were made, and that they were most undoubtedly 
manufactured when the tusk of the elephant was firm 
and hard, as also the decayed state of the shells, 
