ON THE STONE WEDGES OF JAVA.
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among the relics of former ages, or even still in use among existing nations, it may lead to the supposition of a common intercourse in early times, and perhaps induce the surmise of descent from a common stock.
Class IV. Diagram e.
(Length of the original, 7 inches.)
General opinion among the Javanese attributes the origin of these wedges, &c., to thunderstorms. This is worthy of observation, because in Europe, and even in Holland, objects of the same kind are commonly known by the name of thunder-hammers, thunder-chisels, and thunder-bolts.
As yet we are in total uncertainty as to the origin, the object, and still more, the date of these stone implements. According to the unanimous accounts of those who have
