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vesti^ating this discovery ; and one awaits with interest the 

 conclusions that may be reached about it. 



Once more [Fig. 10, next page] I submit a representation 

 of" a diaper pattern of singular beauty — red on a white ground 

 — covering the interior of a cave at Ooraminna, on the 

 overland telegraph track from Port Darwin to Adelaide. 

 The diaper covers a wall-face 12 feet high by 16 Avide : and 

 access can only be obtained to the cave by passing behind a 

 curtain of falling water. At the bottom appear two medal- 

 lions, of singular and symmetrical form. 



I'IG. 9. 



Last September I was in Ireland, a fellow-guest with ii\e 

 late Archbishop of Canterbury, in whose company I visited 

 the " seven churches " at Glendalough. It certainly con- 

 stitutes a " problem," that we should have found, covering 

 the entire face of an Irish Bishop's tomb supposed to be of 

 the sixth century, the precise pattern which 1 here show as 

 decorating a cave in Mid- Australia ! I drcAV the Archbishop's 

 attention to the correspondence, which he admitted to be 

 unmistakeable, and in a high degree remarkable and inter- 

 esting. 



