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with I But he evidently had a suspicion of their true nature, 

 for lie adds, " If they were ever used as arrow-heads they 

 would set the arrow spinning in the air like a ball shot from 

 a rifle." Precisely what they did, and one of the chief 

 reasons for my considering them later than the untwisted 

 forms, without having stratigraphical evidence. Those of the 

 names of scrapers I have italicised seem also to refer to arrow- 

 heads, but of a more ancient type, and the fashioning from 

 one side to a character of the late glacial implements. Mr 

 Smith's arrow-heads are one with the usual sharp point and 

 straight sides, and with a convex base wliere it fitted the 

 shaft. (Such have been found here at the Mull, Auchneight, 

 High Slock, and Macherally.) The next had in addition a 

 central prong where it was fastened to tlie shaft, the third 

 like the second, but with convex sides, and apparently 

 fashioned from broken forms of the second kind. (Forms 

 like these are found sparsely from Creechan Park to the 

 Mull, and also on the 70-ft. terrace inland from Luce Bay.) 

 The arrow-heads of the fourth type were all leaf heads, one 

 being made of quartzite. Here in different localities a few 

 of these have been got on the surface. 



The other observer of flint implements referred to was the 

 Eev. Mr AVilsoii of Glenluce, who has done very much to 

 elucidate all sorts of antiquities in Wig-townshire. A sum- 

 mary of his work on flint implements, with many fine illus- 

 trations, is to be found in the last published volume of the 

 Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries for Scotland (first 

 article). According to his own account there, p. 4, — " The 

 Glenluce flints are chiefly found on or near certain old sea- 

 beaches at the head of the Bay of Luce. These are about 

 20 ft. above sea-level, and run from N.E. to S.W. in parallel 

 storm-beaches " (meaning raised beaches, or perhaps ridges of 

 sand-dunes) " from a point near Park Hay in Glenluce to a 

 point near Sandhead in Stoneykirk, a distance of about six 

 miles." I have found implements not only on the 2o-ft. 

 beach, though here is the great site of the neolithic ones such 

 as are described by Mr Wilson, but also on the much higher 

 upraised sea-bottom that skirts our coast, and even in zonular 

 distribution round the higher old shores, and now also strati- 



