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a raised sea beach in a small secluded bay near Fowl 
Bay on the windward coast of Barbados. At this spot 
there are four well defined beaches in the face of the 
cliff which is here 30 to 40 feet in height and appears to 
be a hard volcanic rock. 
The upper beach exhibits a good many broken pieces 
of shell and some few lie scattered on the beach, next 
below the top one. As the conch shell only occurs at 
the present day in comparatively deep water, these 
fragments point to the presence of man, at a remote 
period, who may have collected conch shells from the 
neighbouring depths by diving, and have here established 
a manufactory of the tools he used — the rude imperfect 
pieces representing the chips and failures of the work- 
men engaged in this primitive handicraft. Or it may be 
that some Caribs at a later date here discovered a store 
of fossilized conch shells and manufactured the celts 
which are not uncommonly found in Barbados fashioned 
from the same material ; and the smaller pieces would 
still represent the chips and broken specimens that must 
have abounded where the substance worked was so brittle 
as conch shells in a fossilized condition. 
Some persons may be incredulous as to these frag- 
ments having been intentionally wrought into their 
present forms, regarding them simply as the result of 
accident — pieces detached from the matrix shell by the 
action of the waves on the shore and assuming shapes 
strongly suggestive of the hand of the designer. 
It may be remembered by those for whom pre-historic 
archaeology has an interest, that the first discoveries of flint 
implements made by M. BOUCHER DE Perthes in 
the drift gravels of the Somme were termed langues des 
