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The importance attaching to this deposit is that quartzite does 

 not occur in the locahty, only granite. The water- worn quartzite 

 boulders have therefore been originally brought from the river to 

 their high, commanding position — a position doubtless more ele- 

 vated than the spot where they were found. That they had gravi- 

 tated there is not a mere assumption, because on the top of the 

 mountain, at the foot of these large granitic bosses, after one of 

 which the Paarl * is named, there were ultimately found scraper- 

 flakes of quartzite as worn as any I ever saw, and this in a place 

 which not only surmounts the " Factory Site " where I found the 

 palseoliths, but where also quartzite is not a local rock. 



The Simondium " Station " presents the same feature as that of 

 the Lower Paarl, and the sketch here given will make the recital 

 more easily understood. The " Station " is situated on a some- 

 what abrupt talus of Simonsberg on the Drakenstein valley 

 side. On the very steep slope of " Pontac Hill," near the dwelling- 

 house, on the Pomona Estate, an extremely large number of arti- 

 ficially worked stones had been exposed by cultivation on what is 

 a saddle of moderate width sloping on one side towards " Donker- 

 hoek," and " Pomona " on the other. A narrow, sinuous "nullah" 

 had been eroded to a depth of 10 or 12 feet. At a depth of 

 some 9 feet I espied on one of the sides the projecting butt-end 

 of a boucher which proved to be one of the finest I ever obtained. 

 On the surface, exposed by digging or ploughing, and almost in a 

 line with the first embedded boucher, I picked one of the heaviest 

 " hache a talon " I have yet found. The two had plainly gravitated 

 from a higher altitude, as others had done, which lying on the 

 surface were, either spall-like, partly manufactured, or nuclei — 

 and what cores ! some more than 18 inches in length — littering the 

 ground. I traced a number of these palaeoliths for nearly a mile 

 along the ascending talus up to 550 feet above sea-level (see cross- 

 dotted scheme in sketch). At that height, also, the implement had 

 been exposed by delving the ground for a plantation, and there 

 is no reason to disbelieve that, were cultivation to be carried higher 

 on this mountain talus, palaeoliths would be revealed. It is at 

 the higher altitude that two implements like Fig. 23 of PI. III. were 

 found, and some of the bouchers were almost in a state of disintegra- 

 tion. A search at a lower level led to the discovery of other palaeo- 

 liths deeply imbedded in stone-gravel in cuttings on each side of the 

 Simondium Eailway Station, 370 feet above sea-level, and about 



* Corruption of the French word pcrle, given it by the French Hugueno 



settlers. 



