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[p. 168] Monstrator. The datum that, just at present, leads me to accept that these flints were made by beings about the size of pickles, is a point brought out by Prof. Wilson (Rept. National Museum, 1892-455): Not only that the flints are tiny but that the chipping upon them is minute." Struggle for expression, in the mind of a 19th-century-ite, of an idea that did not belong to his era: In Science Gossip, 1896-36, R. A. Galty says: "So fine is the chipping that to see the workmanship a magnifying glass is necessary." | think that would be absolutely convincing, if there were anything--absolutely anything--either that tiny beings, from pickle to cucumber-stature, made these things, or that ordinary savages made them under magnifying glasses. The idea that we are now going to develop, or perpetrate, is rather intensely of the accursed, or the advanced. It's a lost soul, | admit--or boast--but it fits in. Or, as conventional as ever, our own method is the scientific method of assimilating. It assimilates, if we think of the inhabitants of Elvera-- By the way, | forgot to tell the name of the giant's world: Spindle-shaped world--about 100,000 miles along its major axis--more details to be published later.