 | Sir John Evans - Flint - 1860 - 28 pages
...thoroughly competent judge in such a matter: "For more than twenty years, like others of my craft, I have daily handled stones, whether fashioned by...as clearly works of art as any Sheffield whittle." — (Athaeneum, July 16, 1859.) b See Wilson's Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, p. 121. B 1. Flint flakes,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860
...be human productions. Professor Ramsay says : " For more than twenty years, like others of my craft, I have daily handled stones, whether fashioned by...flint hatchets of Amiens and Abbeville seem to me to be as clearly works of art as any Sheffield whittle."* The opinion of Dr. Mantell, already referred... | |
 | 1862
...there is any difference of opinion as to the weapons themselves. " For more than twenty years," says Prof. Ramsay, " I have daily handled stones, whether..." clearly works of art as any Sheffield whittle."* It will be better however to quote from the candid sceptic in Blackwood. " They bear," he admits (p.... | |
 | 1862
...difference of opinion as to the weapons themselves. " For more than twenty years," says Prof. Eamsay, " I have daily handled stones, whether fashioned by..." clearly works of art as any Sheffield whittle."* It will be better however to quote from the candid sceptic in Blackwood. " They bear," he admits (p.... | |
 | Evolution (Biology) - 1863
...could be a more competent judge, observes : ' For more than twenty years, like others of my craft, I have daily handled stones, whether fashioned by...as clearly works of art as any Sheffield whittle.'* Mr. Evans classifies the implements under three heads, two of which, the spear heads and the oval or... | |
 | Science - 1863
...accidentally misplaced. Professor Eamsay observes, " for more than twenty years, like others of my craft, I have daily handled stones, whether fashioned by nature or art ; and the flint stones of Amiens and Abbeville seem to me as clearly works of art as any Sheffield whittle." We ought... | |
 | Science - 1863
...accidentally misplaced. Professor Ramsay observes, "for more than twenty years, like others of my craft, I have daily handled stones, whether fashioned by nature or art ; and the flint stones of Amiens and Abbeville seem to me as clearly works of art as any Sheffield whittle." Wo ought... | |
 | Medicine - 1864
...Australia. Of them Professor Ramsay remarks : "For more than twenty years, like others of my craft, I have daily handled stones, whether fashioned by...as clearly works of art as any Sheffield whittle."* Professor Ansted thus expresses himself in a contemporary journal : "Concerning the various weapons... | |
 | 1864
...one could be a more competent judge, observes, " For more than twenty years, like others of my craft, I have daily handled stones, whether fashioned by...as clearly works of art as any Sheffield whittle." The conclusion therefore which was legitimately come to from all the facts, was that the flint tools... | |
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For more than twenty years, like others of my craft, I have daily handled stones, whether fashioned by nature or art ; and the flint hatchets of Amiens and Abbeville seem to me as clearly works of art as any Sheffield whittle.'* Mr. 
