1852.] 



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Cape Riley, all the stones were larger, and different from 

 any others noticed on the Point.* 



The general form of these houses was that of an ob- 

 long oval, about ten feet by twelve, having the doorway 

 about three feet wide by two feet six inches in height, 

 on the floor-level, descending easterly to the external adit. 



One from which this sketch may be said to have been 

 taken had the flat stone remaining over the doorway, as 

 at a. When I venture the observation recent, I wish to 

 be understood as having then, on the spot, asserted such 

 to be my belief, irrespective of later discoveries ; and I 

 felt satisfied, from general observation of the operations 

 of nature during a season, on stone and other substances, 

 in these latitudes, that no such long period as " hundreds 



* None were seen but those of which the houses were constructed. 



