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alleged. In several instances the hole is not quite complete, as if 

 the two fingers had not completely met. 



Primitive as these pots clearly are, the walls are usually of uniform 

 thickness, especially the sides, hut the l)ottom is thicker than the 

 walls. The constricted neck is, as a rule, unsymmetrical, as if that 

 part were difficult to achieve, or required a dexterity of hand wanting 

 in the potter. 



As far as known to me, the majority of these whole relics are found 

 in the sand-dunes that have eventually covered the open-air kitchen- 



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middens of the coast ; but two. Figs. 175 and 176, were discovered 

 in mountain rock-shelters improperly called caves. Fig. 175 

 (PI. XXIV.) is from the Ceres District ; Fig. 178 from Ladysmith, 

 and Fig. 176 from the Zuurberg ; all three localities in the Cape 

 Colony. Fig. 176 is partially filled with specular iron, and the 

 specimen found in the sands of Port Nolloth (Cape Colony), 

 Fig. 180, was also found to be half-full of the same material. 



But although, in the great majority of cases, these ovoid-conical 

 pots are as described or figured, at the nearly extreme western end 

 of the littoral whence they are recorded, there is a difference. 



In the sand-dunes of Walfish Bay, where a few aborigines said, 

 or believed, to be the survivors of the Strand Loopers, now 



