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cliffs near the Giant’s Causeway. So far as I know, only one 
article made from this Irish pumice has been got. I found it on 
old ground on the Mid Torrs, and it looks as if it had been used 
for playing at some kind of game. 
Articles other than those made of flint, or the various stones 
used as hammers, are rather scarce, and mostly confined to stone 
whorls and beads. I only know of one stone brace having been 
got—on Mid Torrs. 
I know of no substance having been obtained used for fixing 
implements, etc., into handles or shafts, but in Ayrshire I once 
picked up a bit of material which may have been a remnant of 
some kind of fixing stuff. It looked so, having been prepared 
from some kind of resin or gum. The only kind of native resin 
we have is from pine trees, then probably only represented by the 
Scots pine ; and gum exudes plentifully from the gean. 
Some very fine beads have been got on the Torrs, but they are 
rather rare. A few are of amber, and it may have been brought 
from the east coast. At least, I know of no native amber as 
occurring in the south-west of Scotland. Yellow, three-lobed 
glass beads, with blue bands; triangular plain glass, with yellow 
bands ; plain blue, green, and pink glass; yellow, vitreous paste ; 
and green paste (some of them star- or beaded shaped) occur; and 
a few have been made of volcanic ash. 
On a spot on Clachshiant very old window glass is to be got; 
weathering having brought out a peculiar structure which shows 
like successive bands of lamination—a sort of rhyolitic structure, 
probably given to it during its casting by having been run on toa 
flat plate. It has also got the rainbow colours commonly seen on 
old glass. I have found a somewhat similar glass in the refuse 
heap of an old Ayrshire castle. Neither of these glasses have 
been cut by a diamond, but are neatly chipped along the 
edge. 
The so-called “jet” of the Scottish antiquarian is probably in 
no case real jet, but cannel, parrot, or gas coal, sometimes oil 
shale, from the carboniferous formation. The articles which 
have been most commonly made from these substances are 
bracelets, rings, beads, pendants, and discs, sometimes with a 
little ornamentation. The discs are both plain and perforated ; 
the latter form being sometimes exceedingly rough objects, for 
