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this point. Here is a Neolithic implement (producing it) found near Abbe- 
ville, and the indications of use upon it are obvious. There are the marks of 
grinding on the surface, and the instrument looks as if its point had been 
worn back, while there is an indentation as if it had been rubbed by a thong. 
This, I admit,' is as obviously a work of art as any C( Sheffield whittle ” ; 
but I have not found, and I must add that I do not think Mr. Evans 
can find, the same marks of use on the Palaeolithic tools. I know that Mr. 
Evans says they do bear marks giving evidence of wear ; but I say that 
what he calls wear may have arisen from friction and attrition in a gravel- 
bed as well as from their having been used by man ; and, furthermore, Mr. 
Evans does not say that they always show marks of having been so used, 
which, of course, is quite a different thing from attrition in a gravel-bed. 
However, in some cases Mr. Evans does attempt to prove that there are 
marks of wear on these flints as exhibited by the serrated edges. In reply to 
this, I wish to call attention to the fact that all the marks of wear found on 
the Neolithic tools are shown in the smoothness of edge which has resulted 
from use ; but in the case of the Palaeolithic tools the evidence of use 
relied on by Mr. Evans has been the jagged edges. (Hear, hear.) I would 
here refer to the circumstance that in the criticism Mr. Evans has made on 
my pamphlet, he does not controvert that portion of it in which I assert that 
(e no relics of man are found in the drift with the so-called implements.” I 
repeat again, that no such relics are found in the gravel-beds mixed up with 
the Palaeolithic tools. You are all aware of the intense interest that was ex- 
cited by the human jawbone which was said to have been discovered by 
Boucher de Perthes at some depth in the gravel at Abbeville ; but after the 
examination which was made of that jaw by Dr. Falconer and other scientific 
gentlemen well able to pronounce an authoritative opinion on such a subject, 
that jaw has been put on one side, and can no longer be admitted into the 
controversy.* (Hear.) There is another point to which I might refer in 
connection with this subject, and that is, that wherever the other works of 
man are found along with his implements, they are found only upon the sur- 
face and not in the drift. For instance, in the valleys of Switzerland, we 
find that the ancient people who lived in those lake districts have left behind 
blance to works of human art, occur in great abundance, and of various 
sizes, from half an inch to several inches in length. A large number were 
exhibited, showing the various forms, which are those of wedges, knives, 
arrow-heads, &c., and all with sharp cutting edges. . . . Dr. Hector stated, 
that although, as a group, the specimens on the table could not well be 
mistaken for artificial productions ; still the forms are so peculiar, and the 
edges, in a few of them, so perfect, that if they were discovered associated 
with human works, there is no doubt that they would have been referred to 
the so-called 1 Stone period.’ ” — Professor Tyndall in Macmillan's Magazine 
for May, 1873, p. 57, 
* One of the teeth being extracted and examined, was found to be not 
yet dry !— [Ed.] 
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