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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... "
Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy ... - Page 58
by Edward Burnett Tylor - 1924
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Archaeologia: Or, Miscellaneous Tracts, Relating to Antiquity..

Society of Antiquaries of London - Archaeology - 1807 - 542 pages
...Afliton Lever, and it therefore 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
...time. The inference he drew from what he saw was strictly scientific. "The situation," he writes, " in which these weapons were found may tempt us to...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...
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Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Volumes 14-15

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1860 - 582 pages
...the use of metals " — and owing to the situation in which they were found, he was almost tempted to refer them " to a very remote period indeed — even beyond that of the present world." Geology had scarcely become a science, it must be remembered, when these remarkable words were...
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Flint Implements in the Drift: Being an Account of Their Discovery on the ...

John Evans - Flint - 1860 - 92 pages
...had been made in the science of geology. Mr. Frere's suggestion, that " the situation in which the weapons were found may tempt us to refer them to a very remote period indeed," was fully borne out by the facts which I was able to adduce, and which were to my mind of a most striking...
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Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity

Archaeology - 1863 - 342 pages
...had been made in the science of geology. Mr. Frere's suggestion, that " the situation in which the weapons were found may tempt us to refer them to a very remote period indeed," was fully borne out by the facts which I was able to adduce, and which were to my mind of a most striking...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1863 - 660 pages
...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...
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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....
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Notes, Critical and Explanatory on the Book of Genesis: From the Creation to ...

Melancthon Williams Jacobus - Bible - 1865 - 336 pages
...found in the gravel of 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...
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Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Book of Genesis ...

Melancthon Williams Jacobus - Bible - 1869 - 310 pages
...found in the gravel 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...
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Primitive Man

Louis Figuier - Archaeology - 1870 - 438 pages
...1800, with this remark: . . . " Fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of metals . . . The situation in which these weapons were found may...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,...
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