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habits of the people who used them. In 1866, I was so 
careful not to mention anything that there could be a doubt 
about, that I left many things for future investigation which 
I had then obtained a glimpse of, but could not confidently 
describe. I now take this opportunity to relate to your 
Society the facts which have become known to me by a 
careful examination of a large number of each kind of imple- 
ment and weapon ; associated as they have always been, in 
my mind, with the manner in which they were left on the 
fields ; and this Paper will complete the history of the flint 
implements of Bridlington so far as I have been able to 
ascertain. 
The people who used flint implements as the hardest 
substance that they could form into a weapon, or a tool, must 
have been very primitive inhabitants. Men could only have 
used wood, and bone, or soft stone, before flint ; they did not 
necessarily use flint before other kinds of stone, and very 
probably they did not do so, as I have found all their 
weapons and implements made of soft stones of various kinds, 
but the soft stone implements have suffered far more than 
the flint ones from the ruthless effect of civilization. The 
farmers dislike to see stones lying about their fields, because 
it disfigures their finished appearance. Though I believe 
small stones, in dry seasons, prevent the rays of the sun 
absorbing the moisture from the roots of the growing crop, 
and that they really are beneficial; but no distinction has 
been made even between large and small stones, and thus all 
have been picked up and carted away ; and I have often seen 
valuable implements being ground to dust on the roads from 
this cause. 
The white flint appears to have been first used at Bridling- 
ton, probably because it was the most easy to manage, and 
the implements could be made larger than in grey flint. 
Most of the commonest implements may be found there 
