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The specimen numbered in the series 16, and much 
stained with oxide of iron, has been ground at one end to a 
fine edge, and chipped at the other, in order to produce the 
required form. This was found in deepening a drain from 
ten to twelve feet, in a bed of drift gravel, beneath layers of 
Lacustrine deposit, brick earth, and alluvium. 
In this particular instance, however, I do not consider the 
depth at which it occurred as indicative of extreme antiquity, 
but, on the contrary, that it may be more modern than any 
of those numbered from one to nine, and yet more ancient 
than the flint implements generally found in tumuli. 
In fact, from all that I have observed during my long 
experience, I feel convinced that, however conclusive the 
evidence may appear to be on the Continent, that there 
have been two long divided or distant epochs, during 
both of which the manufacture of stone implements 
was carried on by primitive races of men — the first 
being distinguished by their rude, and the second by 
their skilful finish — no such indications occur in York- 
shire, though there is sufficient collateral evidence that man 
has been a dweller on the earth "that now is" during 
periods long anterior to the usually received one, and, there- 
fore, that he was coeval with the larger extinct Pachyderms 
and Herbivora, whose periods of active life have been sup- 
posed to date ages prior to man's advent. 
Of the great antiquity of man, however, we have now the 
united testimony of the most eminent philosophers of 
modern times, both at tome and abroad, whose convictions 
have been arrived at by a careful and patient consideration 
of all the various and well-authenticated instances in which 
man and his works have occurred with the remains of 
extinct animals. 
That the human race were contemporaneous with the Irish 
Elk I think no one can doubt who has read Mr. Denny's 
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