Modern Use of Ancient Stone Implements

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Jan 1881

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Nature, Volume 23, Issue 584, pp. 218 (1881).

Physics

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PERHAPS the following statement will interest some of your readers:-In an old volume, ``Thomae Bartolini Acta hafniensia,'' Ann. 1674, 1675, 1676, I find a paragraph signed by Olaus Borrichius, which clearly indicates that in the seventeenth century ancient stone implements, and probably many of them, were converted into flints for the use of the contemporaneous musquetry. The text runs thus:-``Silices Anholdiui triangulares. Insula haec [Anholt in the Kattegat] porrigitur in sinu codano, minuta ilia quidem et naufragiis multorum infamis, uno hîe laudanda quod si quis arenas littoris eiusdem scrutetur, infinites reperiat silices nigros, albos, varios, in sabulo hinc inde sepultos, ad sex transversos digitos in longitudinem protensos, latos digitum unum, omnes triquetros ac si manu artificis fuissent acuminati, et laterlbus plerumque in illam aciem excitatis, ut Iosuae servire potuerint cultris saxeis filiorum Israel circumcisionem imperanti. Nunc ferreo hic seculo in alios vocantur usus : malleo enim in frusta convenientia divisi sclopetorum rotulis ignem prompte ministrant et fomitis incendiarii loco fulmineis bellatorum tubis ancillantur.''

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