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88 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
done for me by Mr. Neill, of the Commissariat Department, - 
who executed them from a sketch which I had made on the | 
spot, aided with the following notes. | 
A curious cave, called by the natives, the Moon’s House, is : 
situated in a solid granite rock, near the left bank of the 
Avon River, and about two anda half miles above the resi- : 
dence of Mr. Hardy. This cave is remarkable for having ` 
imprinted in the living rock, a circular figure, about eighteen | 
inches in diameter, tcgether with several mysterious prints of ; 
the human hand. The circular figure resembles what might | 
be drawn with the tip of the fore-finger, dipped in some - 
white colouring matter, and the circle is subdivided into 
small squares, by means of five perpendicular white lines, 
placed at rather unequal distances, and crossed again by | 
eight lines. An indistinct outer circle appears, in somè 
places, about two inches distant from the inner one. Lë 
laying the eye to the level surface of the granite, the white | 
lines appear rather below the level of the other parts. The 
whole interior of the circle, and the interstices between the d 
white lines, are deeply stained with what appears to me to KR 
iron ochre, but others have pronounced it blood. 1 
The prints of the human hand are of two kinds. About? | 
foot above the circular figure that I have described, are tW? ` 
marks, each exactly resembling such an impression as woud | 
be left by the hand of a full grown native man, dipped H 
blood, and pressed flat on the surface of the rock, with thè 
fingers outspread. But the most remarkable figure is 00% | 
apparently of the same hand, which is distinctly visible 55 ` 
grees of latitude divides th 
River, being in lat. 32», 
lat. 15^. I would refer to this deeply interesting book, doubtless in the f 
wide circulation it deserves, for further details. The ‘ bloody hand,” 9? | 
conspicuous in Mr, mmond's description, has been noticed in three dE ; 
tinct and widely remote situations. —Ep, i 
