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" The situation in which these weapons were found may tempt us to refer them to a very remote period indeed ; even beyond that of the present world... "
Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Page 168
by Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1860
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Archaeologia: Or, Miscellaneous Tracts, Relating to Antiquity..

Society of Antiquaries of London - Archaeology - 1807 - 542 pages
...is probably now in Parkinfon's Muieum. The fituation in which thefe weapons were found may tempt us to refer them to a very remote period indeed ; even beyond that of the prefent world \ but, whatever our conjectures on that head may be, it will be difficult to account...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1886 - 664 pages
...was strictly scientific. "The situation," he writes, " in which these weapons were found may tempt us to refer them to a very remote period indeed, even beyond that of the present world." The surmise has since been proved to be as accurate as it was sagacious ; but if it commended itself...
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Geological Gossip: Or, Stray Chapters on Earth and Ocean

David Thomas Ansted - Earth sciences - 1860 - 344 pages
...which decayed on exposure. Mr. Frere remarks that "the situation in which they were found may tempt us to refer them to a very remote period indeed, even beyond that of the present world." — Archtxologia, vol. xiii. p. 204. published in England, and in 1854 Dr. Rigollot, a French geologist,...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1863 - 660 pages
...evidently weapons of war, fabricated arid used by a people who had not the use of metals ; " and he is " tempted to refer them to a very remote period indeed, even beyond that of the present world." He anticipated Boucher dePerthes's observations by fifty year?, and his memory deserves being rescued...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 118

1863 - 662 pages
...Their association witli the bones of extinct animals is distinctly stated, and their date referred ' to a very remote period, indeed even beyond that of the ' present world ; ' a conclusion as definite as any at which even in the present day we seem able to arrive. The idea...
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Notes, Critical and Explanatory on the Book of Genesis: From the Creation to ...

Melancthon Williams Jacobus - Bible - 1865 - 336 pages
...ffoxne, in Suffolk, England, and he remarked, " the situation in which they are found may tempt us to refer them to a very remote period indeed, even beyond that of the present world !" They were found in a gravel bed two feet thick and twelve * feet below the surface. Little or no...
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Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Book of Genesis ...

Melancthon Williams Jacobus - Bible - 1869 - 310 pages
...of Hoxne, in Suffolk, England, and he remarked, "the situation in which they are found may tempt us to refer them to a very remote period indeed, even beyond that of the present world !" They were found in a gravel bed two feet thick and twelve feet below the surface. Little or no notice,...
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Primitive Man

Louis Figuier - Archaeology - 1870 - 448 pages
...people who had not the use of metals . . . The situation in which these weapons were found may tempt us to refer them to a very remote period indeed, even beyond that of the present world." Thus, even at the commencement of the present century, they were in possession, in England, of proofs...
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The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments, of Great Britain

John Evans - Great Britain - 1872 - 700 pages
...shows himself to have been so much struck by the situation in which the implements were found us to be tempted to refer them " to a very remote period indeed ; even beyond that of the present world." Mr. Frere states that the implements or weapons, as he terms them, lay in great numbers at the depth...
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Once a Week

Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1869 - 588 pages
...the country lanes. Mr. Frere, who gave a description of them, observes, " That they may be referred to a very remote period, indeed even beyond that of the present world." With the worked flints of Hoxne were found fossil bones of enormous size, suggesting their kindred...
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