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ledge of the art of chipping flint, and, from this kind having 
become the most common, it must be supposed the people 
who made them were much the most numerous. 
Those who used the red or black coloured flint appear 
to have been comparatively few in number ; but they manu- 
factured their implements upon a larger scale than the gray, 
and with a bold, skilful stroke, which give them an entirely 
distinct character. 
There appears to be considerable misapprehension respecting 
the degree of skill in manufacturing flint implements, many 
scientific persons supposing that none but the implements 
that have been minutely chipped into form are to be con- 
sidered excellent workmanship ; but in this Bridlington 
district there appears to have been a uniform method of 
forming the implements, by chipping slices off their entire 
length, and thus by three or four skilful blows producing 
the desired pattern; while at Hunter, though only an ad- 
joining parish, the method of producing the finest implements 
was by chipping off small pieces, or very narrow slices, and 
thus, by minute and patient ingenuity, producing the shape 
and beauty which some of them possess. 
I may make another useful observation with regard to 
forms. It is commonly thought that there are only a few 
forms in which flint implements were made; but the truth is 
they were extremely various, and may be properly compared 
to our modern household implements, our mechanics’ tools, 
and our military and ordinary weapons. By comparing the 
implements found at all points of this district, it cannot be 
doubted that the families who used the white flint were far 
more limited in their knowledge of the civilizing arts than 
those who followed them. They appear to have been confined 
to killing wild animals for food and clothing, and to fishing 
They may have made things of wicker-work, and canoes ; 
but they had no saws, planes, drills, or hatchets, which we 
find the other tribes possessed. 
