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Town to the mouth of the Orange River, as known to me, and east- 

 ward from Cape Point to the Kei and Tugela Rivers. 



The shores of Saldanha Bay are huge shell-mounds. An earthen- 

 ware pot still more conical than Fig. 180 (PI. XXIV.), which comes 

 from the sands of Port Nolloth, has been found at Langebaan. 



Through the kindness of Mr. John Wood I am able to give an 

 illustration of such a shell mound, exposed by a railway cutting in 



Fig. 22. 



the vicinity of East London, Cape Colony. Its extreme length is 

 close upon 90 yards, and it would have been originally 40 yards or 

 more across. The maximum thickness is nearly 4 feet. 



From the examples here given, but taken at random, of these 

 open-air shell mounds, it is manifest that the culture they display is 

 generally uniform. The implements are of a Neolithic type ; not the 

 Neolithic of Europe, America, or India, but a South African type 

 corresponding in part to the former. 



