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We must turn away to the immeasurably earlier fire-split flints which the Abbé Bourgeois undaunted mortal! ventured to discover among the Miocene strata of the calcaire de Beauce. Those flints, if of human origin at all, were fashioned by some naked and still more hairy creature who might fairly claim to be considered as genuinely primitive.
Underneath the briars lay rotting timbers and fire-split masonry. The spot was like a little ravined, hillocky wilderness of sterile rocks, draped with rude vegetation, clinging creepers that twined and twisted through every crevice like green serpents.
That big tertiary proboscidean did not live quite long enough, it is true, to be hunted by the cavemen of the Pleistocene age, but he survived at any rate as long as the Pliocene our day before yesterday and he often fell very likely before the fire-split flint weapons of the Abbé Bourgeois' Miocene men.
The sky was black with the three enormous fleets. It was Helium against the field now, and the fight had settled to countless individual duels. There could be little or no manoeuvering of fleets in that crowded, fire-split sky. Zat Arras' flagship was close to my own. I could see the thin features of the man from where I stood.
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