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boucher, a digging tool of no considerable technique, is slightly 

 curved in the line of the long axis, but it is as well, or very nearly 

 as well, smoothed and pitted on one face as on the other. 



It is doubtful if rain-wash alone caused it to roll regularly in such 

 a way and for such a period that each face was alternately and 

 equally subjected to disintegrating influences, but a stream, now no 

 longer traceable, could have done it ; and it must also be stated that 

 there is a dry river not far from the spot to which leads the slope 

 where it was found. According to Mr. Walker, from its position on 

 the lower slope of the hill below the chert band, it might have been 

 carried there from a higher level. 



At some distance from that boucher, but above it, Mr. Walker 

 collected one of the usual Karroo type, a moderately small, lanceo- 

 late, triangular scraper, patinated also, but not as deeply as the 

 boucher itself. 



The patina was distinctly deeper on the obverse than on the 

 reverse side with its usual conchoidal trace of fracture, showing 

 that it had lain undisturbed. At a higher altitude than either the 

 boucher or the scraper were found bluish-grey nuclei with sharp 

 edges, the facetted contour of which corresponds to the shape of the 

 removed flake of the usual sub-lanceolate form, and also a large trim- 

 ming flake, the jagged edges of which testify to its use, and plainly 

 detached from either a very large pebble or rounded boucher. Its 

 curvature is even greater than that of Fig. 98 in PI. XII., which in 

 itself is not more incurved than some of the "Eclats" we possess 

 from " Le Moustier " Station of France. 



The importance attaching to the find of this boucher is that the 

 apical part of one face has been used again slantingly as a muller, 

 or rubbing implement. The abraded surface shows the original 

 bluish-grey texture of the chert pebble — a colouring similar to that of 

 the non-patinated tools found at a higher elevation. 



From this it would appear as if the makers of the surviving, some- 

 what degraded type, such as the usual scraper, either no longer 

 knew the manufacture of, or had never been acquainted with, the 

 primitive use of the boucher. Prompted either by curiosity or a 

 sense of adaptation, they put this tool to a purpose not originally 

 intended for it. 



The CRADOCii Deposits (Cape Coloky). 



I have received from Mr. W. H. Cottell, formerly on the stafl" of 

 the Cape Colony Public Works Department at Cradock, a represen- 



