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Switzerland, the early races of India, the Red Indians of 
America, the primitive Greenlanders, the modern Esquimaux, 
and the natives of the South Sea islands, with some of whom 
we cannot trace any probable intercommunication in ancient 
or modern times, and we can only conjecture that a similarity 
of wants have suggested a similarity of endeavours to 
provide for their attainment, whether in implements for 
domestic purposes, the chase, or war; which conclusion, 
however, is not quite satisfactory, and it remains still for 
the ethnologist and anthropologist to adduce some additional 
and more probable evidence which will explain this singular 
coincidence. 
Now, although flint and stone arrow-heads, adzes, knives, 
scrapers, saws, sling-stones, &c., have long been found in 
considerable numbers in the neighbourhood of Bridlington, 
Malton, and along the Wolds, no instances have occurred in 
the West Riding or this district, that I am aware of, except 
at distant intervals an occasional adze or hammer-head has 
been picked up on the moors ; some of which, I believe, are 
now in the Museums of the Halifax and Bradford 
Philosophical Societies, and in the possession of the Rev. 
W. C. Lukis, of Wath rectory, near Ripon. 
In the ancient village of Adel, however, during the past 
autumn of 1868 and the spring of 1869, while excavating a 
small plot of ground about fifty yards square at the back of 
the Reformatory, numerous fragments of flint have been 
found, as also various implements of the same material, which 
consist of three beautifully-finished arrow-heads, with tangs of 
diflerent shapes ; a broken arrow-head of shorter proportions ; 
several oblong, conical, or leaf- shaped arrow points, without 
tangs ; javelin-heads ; knives ; numerous flint flakes ; one 
very small three-sided implement or point, evidently intended 
to fix at the end of an arrow, carefully chipped up each side; 
another small, flat, lozenge-shaped implement, elaborately 
