310 TRANSACTIONS OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
Of the Abbot's Way itself I need say little, except that near it 
I picked up a few months ago a flint flake, imperfect, but bearing 
every mark of the manufactured article. It is, in fact, the end of 
a flint knife. 
The last building of which I have any knowledge in the Plym 
valley is a small square erection on the north bank at the end of 
the last gorge on the Plym. Above this point stretches the boggy 
table-land in which the river has its rise, and which but for that 
fact would be destitute of all interest, archaeological or otherwise. 
CONVERSAZIONE. 
(2nd January, 1890.) 
An account of this will be found among the Reports. 
EDUCATIONAL THEORIES IN FRANCE IN THE 
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 
SYLLABUS OF LECTURE BY MISS A. G. COOFER. 
(Read 9th January, 1S90.) 
The 1 8th century : its characteristics ; in France, the reign of 
"ideas." The chief feature of educational work in the 17th 
century : practical effort in the direction of educational organiza- 
tion. The full expression of a philosophical doctrine of education 
to be sought in the 1 8th century. Rousseau, the foremost amongst 
French writers, on Pedagogy. " The Emile : " its theories. 
Education under the French Revolution. The work of Condorcet, 
Lakanal, and other leaders. 
