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Eyan are by the upper fossiliferous boulder clay (purple), 

 and the blue laminated brick clay seen at Clashmahew and 

 Terally. An equivalent ancient soil and similar blown sands 

 are found likewise, so that there is much in common between 

 the sites of the tools in the two localities. But to me it 

 seems that the. worked flints, at least some of them, have a 

 far deeper horizon than Mr Smith ever dreamed of. In a 

 half hour spent in Clashmahew clay-quarry, during a journey 

 to Stranraer, a chipped flint was found in the deeper lami- 

 nated brick clay among shells of an arctic character, and 

 subsequently others have been obtained froni' a like bed in 

 Terally brickwork. Moreover, the zonular distribution of the 

 surface exposures of the tools and the positions of implements 

 in stratified deposits seem to indicate that they will yet 

 throw light on a long, long role of Glacial Man's progress. 

 Mr Smith says that along the coast for 500 yards inland no 

 worked flints are to be found, and hence he infers that the 

 ancient people who used these flints inhabited the land when 

 it was lower than at present. There, however, he says a very 

 beautiful celt turned up. There are similar phenomena here. 

 Among " the scraping-knives " found Mr Smith mentions 

 " straight-edged," " lance- shaped^' " duck-Mll-shcqjed," " semi- 

 circuloid," " patelloid," " spokeshave-shaped," and " irregular 

 flakes with concave chipped hollows, evidently used for 

 finishing arrow shafts." ''All these knives have heen fashioned 

 from one side. The limpit-shaped ones have been worked all 

 round, the oblique chipping having met at a point at the 

 back. Some of the spokeshave ones are serrated on the 

 edges." This would serve as an excellent description of the 

 later groups found in the Ehins, and especially at Genoch, as 

 well as of some found on the surface from about 50 ft. up to 

 about 100 ft., and in some places much higher, as at the 

 !Mull. I had a collection of these, from which the finest 

 specimens, some eighty or ninety, were selected and given to 

 Jas. M'Douall, Esq. of Logan, long ago. What Mr Smith 

 calls 'drills are also to be obtained here, but, unfortunately, 

 he took a piece of slate and solemnly drilled holes in it with 

 them right and left handed wise. This was like Mark Twain's 

 pauper prince taking the Great Seal of England to crack nuts 



