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at hand will never be attained.” If the two inquirers above named have thu» 
foiledin their logic, there is at least some foundation for the words of Dr. 
n t that “no logical proof can be adduced that the peculiar shapes 
gi™ to them by human hands.” The leading advocates 
kernel ’’have failed on this point of their case. Iwdlnmv 
in this inquiry 1 shall follow the sound canon of scientific criticism, of judg g 
the unknown by the known. 
1st. The Palcedithie implements are all of flint, ani m tins ' ^ 
differ from the recognized stone tools of the Neolithic age, which are not only 
, , fli t w .j s0 of “ serpentine, greenstone, granular-greenstone, 
indurated claystone, trap, quartz, syenite, schistus, ydtov 
greater detail, and adds, “ From aU this we come to *e conclusnm ha 
n Scandinavia, as in the South Sea Islands, the savage did not confine 
himself to one single material for his implements, but had resort to a y 
"e substance that he could obtain.” (The Stone Age, PjOl ) But 
S^2 were made of greenstone, basalt, trap and 
put this known fact of what man really did, against the fancy 
implements’’ are all of one type- This does 
. r the “hatchets” vary in length from two to ten inches ; nor to finish, tor 
th~ ohippU nuu. M,. ru.« J" “ f ” 
are fifteen or sixteen distinct types; Mr. Evans drndes them“toegh 
varieties all duly named, and then adds, “ I am far more ready to think that 
only two’ main divisions can be established, though even then may be , d 
evidence against their being implements at all. 
But this type is so distinct, and the implements, wherever , 
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