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After the quiet settlement of the mud, the cavern 
appears to have been inhabited, for it is on the surface of 
this sediment, slightly adhering to it, but not incorporated 
with it, that the flint implements were found, which attest 
the presence of man. They are of three different kinds, 
corresponding with the varieties observed in other places ; 
some, M'Enery calls arrow and spear heads ; some, knives or 
chisels ; some, wedges for splitting wood. The regularity of 
their form, he observes, precludes the supposition of its being 
accidental. I am reminded of a similar testimony, of 
Professor Ramsay's, in regard to the implements from the 
Valley of the Somme, with regard to which a doubt has been 
expressed (but only by those who had not seen them) whether 
their form was not owing to natural causes. " For twenty 
years," he says, " like others of my craft, I have handled 
daily, stones, whether fashioned by nature or art, and the 
flint hatchets of Amiens and Abbeville are to me as clearly 
works of art as a Sheffield whittle."* In the Cavern of 
Kent's Hole they are never found, according to Mr. M'Enery, 
more than three inches deep in the diluvial mud, they bear 
no mark of abrasion by friction in water, and, consequently, 
they were not brought in along with the mud. Mr. M'Enery 
argues that they could not have been introduced through the 
stalagmite, which lies above the diluvial mud, by any 
excavations for ovens or pits, as had been conjectured by 
Dr. Buckland, who was unwilling to admit that the position 
in which they were found was their original one. Mr. Yivian 
adds, that the Torquay Natural History Society had found 
the flints, below stalagmite, so hard and thick that without 
quarrymen's tools it could not have been broken up, and 
therefore it was in the highest degree improbable that those 
who possessed only implements of flint should have made 
* See also the. papers of Mr. Prestwich and Mr. Evans, in the Philosophical 
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