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Others are circular and triangular flints, which were set in 
some other substance, probably bone ; and some have three, 
and some four equal projections from the centre. 
Others form a large angular point of flint, with a lesser 
projecting point above it, and others are cut the ordinary 
lozenge shape. 
A very pretty pattern has a curved neck, with a larger 
triangular-pointed head, which in the most perfect specimen 
represents a snake’s head, very distinctly cut, but the work- 
manship degenerates in the ordinary examples into a mere 
curved piece of flint, with a small projecting shank for the 
neck. 
There are also straight patterns of flint brooches, chipped 
out at equal distances, to make the line irregular, and some 
are cut in the form of a prism, and others are curved 
throughout the whole length, and straight pieces are left 
larger in the centre than at the extremities. 
Dress pins are cut various lengths, either straight or 
curved at the upper end, while some have a knob rudely 
formed. There are two patterns that were much admired, if 
I may judge from their frequent use, one of them was a short 
pin, with a flat head, cut round, an inch in diameter. The 
other is a straight pin, with a cross head, of larger size. 
The brooches and pins are almost entirely cut out of grey 
flint, which illustrates my idea that the people who used the 
grey flint were the same race of people who have shown such 
artistic skill in France, Italy, and Greece, from the earliest 
ages. That they were a distinct race of men, I have shown 
by their always having made their implements of this flint, 
and of a smaller size, compared with the red and the white, 
and invariably neater, and exhibiting great taste in the 
execution; at the same time expressing feebleness and a 
want of physical power, which the red flint implements so 
strongly develop. In expressing myself thus, I am follow- 
