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560 conjunction with the bones of the Elephas primigenius. This specimen is similar in form and character to those remarkable implements found at Hoxne, at Kent’s Hole near Torquay, and at Biddenham, in this country, and on the continent at Amiens, St. Acheul, and in the valley of the Somme, the discovery of which, and whose history as connected with the earliest races of man, are now exciting so much interest in the scientific world.

These examples of human handicraft, if wrought by beings similar to ourselves, found in the Post Pleistocene Formation, or Drift, as it is called, awaken the keenest inquiry, and prove to us that not Geology only, but Archæology and Ethnology, in their daily acquisition of new facts, have yet much to learn and much to teach us, of the history of our own race, and of the world on which we live. 

