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I picked them up that I must renounce my right of reflection 
before I could refuse to recognise the fact. 
THE DART. 
The dart is a very peculiar weapon, which I do not com- 
prehend the use of. There are at least four different shapes. 
One of them is a mere triangular point of flint, varying from 
an inch to an inch and a half long ; another two inches long 
and pointed at both ends, but one end is twice as long as the 
other, and as sharp as possible ; the third, which I have in 
soft stone, was made flat on the under side, and triangular on 
the upper, with the front, or long end, pointed, and the other 
end contracted nearly to a point. I have the same shape in 
flint, much larger. These darts were generally made with 
very little attention to accuracy of shape, and some of them 
are exceedingly rough weapons. The fourth kind of dart 
was certainly intended to be thrown from the person in some 
manner, as it has been found in the skull of a buried warrior 
in a tumulus. It is the form of a leaf, thin, and sharp at 
the front edges. 
I think it will strike those who hear this Paper read, that 
there is a peculiar originality and primitive simplicity in the 
weapons I have found, which were the only kind that the 
earliest people who inhabited the neighbourhood of Brid- 
lington were acquainted with. I do not know that the in- 
ventions made any progress there ; but it is evident that 
wherever the knowledge of such weapons was derived from, 
none could have been of earlier date in this new world. 
They consist of a mere stick and a stone, made effective and 
dangerous weapons by subsequent alterations and additions ; 
and by the time these were improved to the utmost extent of 
their ingenuity, the inhabitants had learned to cut flint much 
more dexterously than they could at first ; but when the 
straight method of chipping was only understood, the 
