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Nos 27 to 30 are deposited by Mr. James Brown , to whom 
belongs the credit of discovering the implement-bearing character 
of the drift which caps the cliffs near Hill Head. The four 
implements in this case are the only specimens yet obtained from 
this locality. A large mass of the drift had fallen from the upper 
part of the cliff upon the shore, very shortly before No. 27 was 
found ; probably Nos. 27 to 29 fell with it. 
The discovery made by Mr. Leech in the autumn of 1860, upon 
the sea-coast near the Reculvers, is of a similar nature. In all Mr. 
Leech found six flint implements at that spot, all of which are now 
in the Museum in Jermyn-street. In the spring of 1861, Mr. 
Evans and Mr. Prestwich accompanied Mr. Leech to the same 
spot, and obtained two more of these implements, to which number 
three others were subsequently added. 
31 to 35. Flint implement from the drift of the valley of the 
Lark, near Icklingham, Suffolk, deposited by Mr. E. T . 
Stevens. 
An argument as to the contemporaneous deposition of the flint 
implements with the drift beds in which they are found is derived 
from their colour. When they are taken from yellow gravel, they 
are stained of an ochreous-yellow colour; others have acquired 
brown tints, according to the matrix in which they have been 
enclosed. “ This accordance in the colouring of the flint tools 
with the character of the bed from which they have come, indicates 
not only a real derivation from such strata, but also a sojourn 
therein of equal duration to that of the naturally broken flints 
forming part of the same beds.” 
36. Flint flake (qy. if natural) from the lower-level drift gravel at 
Petersfinger, near Salisbury. 
37 to 40. Flint implements from the higher level drift gravel at 
Bemerton, near Salisbury, found by Dr. H. P. Blackmore, in 
the autumn of 1863. 
Nos. 36 to 40 are deposited by Dr. H. P. Blackmore . 
Of course questions are asked about these flint implements from 
the drift. What were they used for ? How came they at the 
bottom of the ancient drift river bed ? and so on. Questions not 
simply difficult, but impossible to answer satisfactorily. All that 
can be done is to look for existing races of men whose mode of life 
may afford us a clue to the probable solution of the difficulty. Mr. 
Prestwich has suggested that such a clue is afforded by the 
American Indians who now inhabit the country between Hudson’s 
Bay and the Polar Sea. As often as deer and other game become 
scarce on the land, these Indians betake themselves to fishing in the 
rivers, and for this purpose and also to obtain water for drinking, they 
are in the constant practice of cutting round holes in the ice, a foot or 
more in diameter, through which they throw baited hooks or nets. 
For making these holes they use ice-chisels, of metal, when they 
