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the drift, on the contrary, have merely been roughly chipped out of the flint, and in no 
case ground. When from any cause the former have been left as originally chipped 
out, it will be found in most instances that the chipping process has been executed with 
much greater nicety, and the chips or splinters removed have been much smaller than 
those from the weapons found in the drift. Eude as the ordinary stone implements 
may appear, they seem to point to a higher degree of civilization than those I am now 
considering. Who the people were that formed them, at what period they lived, and in 
what manner these their memorial stones became imbedded in the mass of drift in which 
they are now discovered, must, I am afraid, ever remain a matter for conjecture. But 
that these weapons and implements form as much an integral part of the deposit in 
which they are found as any other of its constituent flints or pebbles, I for one am con- 
vinced. The undisturbed state of the beds of sand and gravel, the incrustations upon 
some of the worked flints (identical with that upon the other flints in the same bed, a 
really antique patina), the concurrent testimony of the workmen, the similarity of the 
discoveries at Abbeville and Amiens, thii'ty miles apart, the assurances of M. Boucher 
HE Perthes, both verbal and printed, and lastly, our omi observations, all convinced me 
that they were not at any subsequent period buried in the gravel, but were entombed in 
it with the remains of the Elephant, Ehinoceros, and other extinct mammaha, at the 
time when the agent was still in force by which these beds of drift were deposited. 
Had any doubts remained upon my mind, the discovery of identical weapons at Hoxne 
in Sufiblk, in conjunction with similar remains of extinct mammals and in analogous 
drift, recorded moreover in the ‘ Archeeologia ’ sixty years ago by an antiquary unfet- 
tered by geological theories, would have sufliced to have removed them. There appear 
to have been one or two other similar discoveries in England, and more would probably 
have been recorded, had not the rudeness of the workmanship of the weapons been 
such that they would hardly attract the eye of an ordinary observer, while those scien- 
tific persons who have been engaged in the investigation of the drift, have been more 
on the alert for fossil organisms than for traces of the hand of man. These dilurial beds 
will, however, now form a point of union on which both the geologist and the antiquary 
may prosecute their inquiries together ; and on this neutral territory between Palaeon- 
tology and Archaeology a wide field is opened for investigation, which must eventually 
lead to a great extension of our knowledge of the history of primeval Man. 
Believe me, my dear Sir, ever youi-s sincerely, 
JoHX Evaxs. 
(B.) Extract from letter of Dr. H. Ealconer, F.E.S., F.G.S. &C., to the author, 
descriptive of the result of his recent examination of the remains of the great extinct 
Pachyderms in the several collections at Amiens. Dated Lyons, 21st October, 1860. 
“1. In M. Garnier’s private collection I saw two well-marked examples of molars of 
Elephas antiguus ; the one a magnificent specimen of the last true molar, lower jaw left, 
composed of fourteen collines to the croum, all more or less worn. The characters are 
so pronounced that I would have selected it as a typical illustration of the species for a 
drawing. The specimen was stated by M. Garnier to be from St. Eoch. There was 
one peculiarity about it deserving consideration, that tested by ‘ lliappement a la languc,' 
