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made of this flint, but it is very difficult to get them 
moderately well chipped. They appear generally to have 
been roughly broken into shape, as a mere novice would 
make them, and a collector will immediately discover that, if 
he is fastidious regarding the workmanship, he cannot find a 
specimen to please himself ; but no archaeologist would 
confine himself to beautiful forms, if he wishes to appreciate 
the evidence of flint implements. 
The art of chipping was strictly progressive, as well as all 
other arts have been, commencing very rough and ill-formed, 
and finishing beautifully even and regular ; and if we care- 
fully examine the improvement in the method of manufac- 
turing the implements that are left, and consider the many 
useful purposes for which they were adapted, we shall 
discover that there is abundance of proof that the three first 
tribes who inhabited Bridlington considerably advanced in 
civilization. I believe there is no doubt that they each 
manufactured their own implements, as I do not find the 
same pattern exactly followed in many instances ; and those 
who understood the art of chipping flint sufficiently well to 
form perfect implements, were either not inclined to take the 
trouble to make them all well, or they found that for 
ordinary purposes it was not necessary to do so, for I have 
found at least fifty inferior implements to one superior, even 
of grey and red-coloured flint; and I wish everyone to 
understand that the people who used flint implements were 
contented with very inferior chipping to what they find in 
my collection, and probably in any other. 
Whilst I was in the act of collecting them, I indulged 
freely my own speculations regarding the kind of lives these 
early people must have led. I have since gone amongst our 
own poor, and observed how they live. I have also partaken 
of the comforts of a log cabin, in the far West of America, 
and witnessed the contentment and rude happiness of settlers 
