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of the original surface of the matrix or nucleus has also been 

 retained, as in the Tulbagh example, and although, owing to the 

 composition of the rock of which it is made, it has undoubtedly 

 required more knowledge of trimming, its resemblance to the 

 Tulbagh implement, as well as its dimensions, are strikingly alike. 



If we turn to the best finished tongue-shaped or amygdaloidal 

 implements the similarity in examples originating from localities far 

 apart is equally suggestive. 



Fig. 31 is made of granite and is the first African implement of 

 that rock found hitherto.* It comes also from Charter, in Southern 

 Rhodesia. The right edge was broken by a waggon going over it. 

 It is very finely grained and shows a great deal of weathering. The 

 felspar is kaolinised. On comparison with Fig. 32, which is the 

 reverse of Fig. 3, one of the best finished quartzite implements of 

 the Stellenbosch type and picked up near that town, one finds it to 

 be of the same shape, of the same type of manufacture and to have 

 the same finish. The cleaver. Fig. 33, also from Charter, and Fig. 34 

 from Stellenbosch, exhibit the same resemblance, although differing 

 in composition. 



These Southern Ehodesia implements were discovered by Mr. 

 W. H. Kenny, a prospector, who found them isolated, some on 

 the surface, others " sticking out " of the banks of a " spruit." t In 

 that collection were examples very similar indeed to the banded 

 jasper palaeoliths of Griqua Town, but made of impure, not banded 

 jasper. Some ai'e small chalcedony bouchers chipped on one face 

 only or nearly flat, and resembling greatly, in fact identical with, the 

 Zambesi silicious implements ; but most interesting w^ere three made 

 of white quartz from vein, and respectively 133, 95, and 80 mm. 

 long by 80, 68, and 66 mm. broad. The larger is opaque, the outer 

 two crystalline ; the smallest of the three is broken at one end. 

 They are somewhat coarse, and the edges resulting from the 

 " knapping " are very blunt, but they have probably taken as much 

 time as, and demanded even greater skill in shaping than, the 

 chalcedony palaeolith from the Zambesi Eiver described and figured 

 by Mr. Henry Balfour.]: 



* Granite implements have also been found in the neighbom-hood of Toulouse, 

 but, I believe, there only. 



t I here take the opportunity of thanking Mr. Kenny for allowing me not only 

 to examine his very interesting collection, which I understand is now in England, 

 and make notes thereon, but also to have some of the examples photographed for 

 the purpose of this paper. He has just lately sent me a series of the same for our 

 Collection. 



I " Note upon an Implement of Palaeolithic Type from the Victoria Falls, 

 Zambesi," .Tourn. Anthropol. Inst., vol. xxxvi,, 1906 (170-171). 



