1892-93.] 



NOTES ON THE WESTERN DE\l£s. 



polished off. It is of a gray basaltic rock, regularly wood-veined and 

 very hard. 



k 



ll 



t"ig- 5- /i size. 



Fig. 6. ^ size. 



Here (fig. 7) we witness a sort of transition between what might perhaps 

 be called the medio-palaeolithic and the neolithic types, in that this adze- 

 blade has been treated to a partial polish elsewhere than at its edge. 



size. 



Fig. 7. y^ size. Fig. 8. 



It is of a fine-grained volcanic rock which has been rendered rather hard 

 by pressure subsequent to its original cooling. It is disproportionately 

 thick and fully 8}4 inches long. 



