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FLINT IMPLEMENTS. 
these ossiferous deposits, though but of yesterday in geological history, 
are of immense antiquity in relation to the human inhabitants of 
the country. I believe that ages ere the advent of the Maories, New 
Zealand was densely peopled by the stupendous bipeds whose fossil 
remains are the sole indications of their former existence. That the 
last of the species was exterminated by human agency, like the dodo 
and solitaire of the Mauritius, and the gigantic elk of Ireland, there 
can be no doubt, but ere man began the work of destruction, it is not 
unphilosopliical to assume that physical revolutions, inducing gTeat 
changes in the relative distribution of land and water in the South 
Pacific Ocean, may have so circumscribed the geographical limits of the 
dinornis and palapteryx, as to produce conditions that tended to 
diminish their numbers preparatory to their final annihilation." 
Mr. Thomas Wright, F.S.A., on the remains of a primitive 
people in the south-east corner of Yorkshire : with some remarks on 
the Early Ethnology of Britain. The first part of this paper is 
descriptive of an interesting collection of flint implements found by 
Mr. Edward Tindall, of Bridlington, and Mr. Thomas Cape, of the 
same place ; they consist principally of arrow-heads, heads which 
might be attached to spears, fish-hooks, slingstones and chips or 
flakes. The author was informed by Mr. Tindall " that the arrow- 
heads and the heads of spears and javelins are found most abundantly 
in old moor-land, on the sides of rather steep hills ; and that when 
such land is first broken up and tilled they are sometimes found 
scattered about in considerable numbers. It is evident that they 
belonged to a tribe confined within this district, because they appear 
not to be found beyond it. Mr. Tindall further informs me, from 
his own experience, that the slingstones are found chiefly in and 
around Flamborough ; that in the neighbourhood of Sewerby, about 
three miles from Flamborough, the rudest of the arrow-heads are 
found ; and that as far as his own observation goes those of most 
perfect make are found further inland. It appears that in particular 
fields in the immediate neighbourhood of Bridlington, they are met 
with in much greater quantities than in other places ; in such quanti- 
ties indeed, that I am assured that a person who looks for them, can 
hardly, at any time, walk across one of those particular fields without 
