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in PL XVI., Figs. 123 and 128; also nuclei, irregular flakes, scraper- 

 knives, &c., in great quantity, but most of them also of a very 

 crude type. 



Mr. Cottell's answers are as follows : — 



"Before replying to your questions as to sites, hill, or other for- 

 mations, in which the palaeoliths and the seemingly recent imple- 

 ments are found, I was anxious to visit a few places to make sure of 

 the relation of the ' palaeolithic ' type to the ' Bushman.' I found a 

 deposit of a considerable extent of the large tools some 5 miles 

 south of Cradock, and about a mile and a half east of the river. 

 The deposit is on the slope of a flat-topped hill, the west side of which 

 terminates in a kranz facing the river (text-fig. 2). The whole of the 



Fig. 3. 



slope is covered with chipped boulders of a hard, black shale. The 

 same material caps the top of the hill. These tools are very crudely 

 chipped and badly modelled. Some are of gigantic dimensions. 

 The majority appear very modern, almost as if quite recently made. 

 There were a few old ones of much better design and finish. I am 

 sending a few of each. 



"There were no 'Bushman' tools with these large ones, nor 

 remains of game or shells. 



" On the kranz side of the hill, however, there were ' Bushman ' 

 flakes, mostly of the knife-scraper lanceolate form, and shells 

 (? Unio sp.). 



" I revisited the ' Baths.' The large types there are on the fringe 



