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them not only their flint tools * but remnants even of their food-the baked 
com they used to eat— as well as the raiment they used to wear, the 
, -nieces of their pottery, and a number of other things, which 
abundantly prove man’s existence there ; but when we go to the gravel-beds 
we find noother relic of man than these so-called Paleolithic flint * 00 s > 1 
am to except thenecklaces of the Paleolithic girls-(laughter)-which iba 
been found in the gravel-beds of St. Acheul. I 
these beads, which are said to have been the work of man. Here (p 
(tacina several specimens) are some of them. These sub-globular sponges 
have been examined by Professor Eupert Jones and Dr. Carpenter, and pro- 
nounced by them to be fossil organisms of the chalk, which Professor Jones 
sayiTcan hi found in abundance in the chalk, “ either r m the perforated con- 
dition or solid, or with a more or less shallow hole m their substa . _ 
being ’so I say that it is a cruel thing to arrange these fossils on a string m 
trust that I shall alwavs be able with honesty and good temper, and at least 
wHh some scientific sMU, to argue the question, and X repeat that my stro^ 
impression is, from an intelligent inspection, that both these beads and thes 
Palaeolithic implements have been produced by natural causes and not by 
fh“ofman. There is just one other point to which! shmfld hke 
to refer before sitting down. There are upon the table a great numbei “ 
Ls which are termed “discoidal implements” by Mr. Stevens, and he teUs 
tThaUhey are sometimes found chipped into form so as to ^kevery good 
Pakeolithic missiles. Now, these things are very common. Here is a g 
piece of chert that I picked up, and on every side of it you may see little 
cups which it is contended are evidence of the chipping where the discoidal 
implement” has been broken into shape. Here is another specimen, also of 
a large size. Now, if you look at these pieces of flint, you will see htt 
cups broken all over them, and these little cups have all been acknow ^ 
by those who have examined them to be perfectly natural. Here is a beautn 
M one from Pressigny-le-Grand, and numbers of them are found 
all over Norfolk. One of them is so small that it might be used as butto 
of the smallest sixe ; and here is another from Eastbourne, * “ 
could hardly be put into the pocket. It only requires a careful inspection 
to prove that these marks on the flint are all produced by natural causes. 
Here is a most beautiful flint knife from the Taw, which has all the marks 
Egyptians at tl?e .time of the Exodus,— [bn. J 
