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were the descendants of the original black-haired and red- 
haired races, and those who inhabit their territory now are 
the light- haired races (speaking only with reference to the 
prevailing colours). The blending of these clearly distin- 
guishable races has created much diversity of colour in the 
hair, but the broad fact remains ; and if we look back to the 
earliest period, before any intermarriage had produced the 
variations which now prevail, it is easy to comprehend that 
where the light and black-haired races were following each 
other, and settling side by side, — as they clearly did at 
Bridlington, when flint was the only substance which was 
known for making the implements they used, — their habits 
and their tastes were different, as they ever have been on the 
Continent, where they came from ; and from this cause we 
find distinct classes of flint implements where they lived. 
At the conclusion of the Meeting, the members of the 
Society and the elite of the neighbourhood were sumptuously 
entertained at a banquet, given at the Bed Lion Hotel, by 
the Mayor and Corporation of Pontefract, and at which 
about eighty ladies and gentlemen sat down. His Worship 
presiding. 
