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belief that the civilisation of the Dravidians, who were the great architects of 
India, originated at the same centre. Reference was also made to the Turanian 
affinity of the Dravidians, and the existence among the ancient Chaldeans 
of a Turanian race, which possessed an advanced civilisation. This civilisa- 
tion would seem, as supposed by M. Lenormant and other writers, to have been 
handed down from pre-deluge times to the Turanians, and to have been transmitted 
by them to the Hamitico-Kushites. Facts such as the invention of the arts of 
metallurgy and architecture were mentioned to show that the ancient Turanians 
were in reality Cainites, a conclusion which was supported by the consideration 
of social and religious phenomena. The pre-Deluge history of Genesis furnishes 
evidence of the existence of an hereditary enmity between the descendants of Cain 
and those of Seth, and also a difference of religion, such as afterwards subsisted 
between the Caucasian races and the Turanians. The prevalence of serpent worship 
among the latter was referred to, and reasons were adduced for believing that the 
people who erected the Naga Temples of Cambodia were allied to the pre-Aryan 
race of Northern India, with whom the Hindoo Pandavas were probably also con- 
nected. The peculiar development of serpent worship among the Egyptians and 
the Chinese, as well as its existence among the Hamitie and Turanian peoples 
generally, with the latter of whom it was probably a primeval superstition, was 
dwelt upon as further evidence of the affinity between those peoples. In conclu- 
sion, reference was made to a mark which is said to be found on the hip of every 
new-born Chinese child, and also to a similar mark mentioned by Mr. John Morris 
as distinguishing individuals belonging, as he supposes, to the true Hamitic stock, 
and it was suggested that the tradition as to the mark of Cain may be based on 
such a phenomenon. 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22. 
The Department did not meet. 
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. 
The following Report and Papers were read :— 
1. Report of the Committee on the Investigation of ‘ Loughton’ or ‘ Cowper's’ 
Camp.—See Reports, p. 243. 
2. On a Flint Implement found on Torre-Abbey Sands, Torbay. 
By W. Pencetty, P.B.S., F.GS. 
On January 26, 1883, Mr. H. W. Watson, of Torquay, found a flint implement 
lying on the well-known submerged forest, Torre-Abbey Sands, Torbay, near the 
ordinary spring tide low-water line, and he was so good as to submit it tome. It 
is 4:8 inches long, 1:55 inch in greatest width, ‘6 inch in greatest thickness, round 
at each end, but broader and thicker at one than the other; convex on one margin, 
but slightly concave on the other, *3 inch thick at the broader end, and ‘2 inch at 
the narrower. Its inner face is slightly concave longitudinally, and convex trans- 
versely, it has a slight ‘ bulb of percussion’ near its broader end, and is nowhere 
smooth. The outer face is convex, and divided into two unequal slopes by a ridge 
inclining towards the convex edge of the tool. The abrupter slope has undergone 
a considerable amount of dressing; the concave edge is thin and comparatively 
sharp, while the convex edge has apparently seen some service. It does not 
apepar to have been rolled or scratched, and all the facts connected with it point 
