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notS f T 7 u* n 0 Westminster Review, in which there was a 
nonce of the Bnxham Cavern, containing several statements strongly 
opposed to what he (Mr. Whitley) had now advanced. The controversy 
seemed to him (Mr. Row) to rest on this : did these flints contain evidence 
ot being made by man? a question rendered more easy of solution by 
the fact of the vast amount of flint flakes that were scattered over 
these islands. He had picked up a great quantity at Nevvhaven and it 
might be said that they were surface flints, the peculiar forms of which 
might have been occasioned by the processes of agricultural cultivation : 
but he dug up one specimen from a depth of five or six feet in the 
chalk, and it was a far more perfect specimen than any to be found on 
tie surface ; it was so sharp that it would inflict a considerable wound. 
ow, did that particular flint flake bear marks of human manufacture, 
or was it a natural production ? On the Sussex Downs a very large 
quantity of flint flakes were to be found extending over a great area ; 
and near Portsmouth there were whole fields covered with shattered 
Hints. The existence of such immense quantities must disprove the idea 
that they were manufactured articles. He very much doubted whether 
a the savages who ever lived could have manufactured all the flints 
which he had himself seen. 
Rev. W. B. Galloway said he had brought with him one or two flints, 
w ich were simply the result of natural fractures, and not intended to show 
any design. They were picked up at Eastbourne from a crushing-machine, 
which crushed flints for road “metal” ; and no savage could manufacture 
anow-heads better adapted for his purpose than those which the crushing- 
machine supplied. One of these flints had the edge bevelled, and, as°a 
secondary chipping of the flint with a view to bevelling was mentioned 
. y , M V ^ vans as an evidence of human manufacture, it was most important 
to find that bevelling existed in an accidental form of flint. 
Mr. Jordan thought that the reasons advanced by Mr. Row for the 
natural rather than the artificial formation of the flints were scarcely suf- 
ficient, for it might be urged that the manufacture of such flints would ex- 
end over a long period of time, and hence that many would be made. 
Ihe question was, did such flints show signs of natural cleavage ? If a 
mt would not naturally cleave into such forms, it was reasonable to sup- 
pose that they were of human make. If, on the contrary, the cleavage was 
such as would be naturally produced by blows or crushing, then we ought 
to look with great suspicion upon such flints as were found in association 
wi 1 ie extinct animals. If the cleavage was natural, it would be rea- 
sonable to suppose that the flints would be found of all sizes ; but if the 
flints were of human manufacture only, such sizes would be formed as 
were suitable for the purposes for which they were made. It was un- 
questionable that, in Nature’s own laboratory, they were found of all 
sizes. 
Rev. A. J. Harrison, Ph.D., remarked on the extraordinary amount 
