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[ Somme: a river of northern France which flows into the English Channel northeast of Dieppe.]
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[ the chipped flints of Hoxne and Amiens: the rude instruments which were made by primitive man were of chipped flint. Numerous discoveries of large flint implements have been made in the north of France, near Amiens, and in England. The first noted flint implements were discovered in Hoxne, Suffolk, England, 1797. Cf. Evans' Ancient Stone Implements and Lyell's Antiquity of Man.]
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[ Rev. Mr. Gunn (1800-1881): an English naturalist. Mr. Gunn sent from Tasmania a large number of plants and animals now in the British Museum.]
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[ "the whirligig of time": cf. Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act V, se. I, l. 395.]
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[ Euphrates and Hiddekel: cf. Genesis ii, 14.]