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must be earlier than a gorge cut through the lava there. Those from 

 Baringo must also have been used at a time when that lake was much 

 larger than at present. 



The forms of the implements do not give any definite evidence of 

 great age. Sir John Evans has kindly examined some of them, and 

 says they are of a neolithic type. 



Sectioyi 

 irou^h a.b. 



Fig. 19. — Neolithic Stone Implements from Masailand. 



Recently three distinct descriptions of stone implements have come 

 from Tropical Africa, M. Dupont has found some on the Congo ; 

 Dr. Jousseaume ^ has described a series from Somaliland in an article 

 in U Anthropologic ; and Mr. Seton-Karr has brought back a large series 

 from the same country, which have been exhibited (September 1895) 

 at the Ipswich meeting of the British Association. The Somaliland 



^ Jousseaume, " Reflexions anthropologiques a propos des Tumulus et Silex Taillts 

 des ^omalis et des Danakil," L Anthropologie, t. vi. (1895), pp. 392-413. 



