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doubtedly of importance in pre-historic times makes it probable 

 tliat rock-markings should be found there ; but against this con- 

 clusion there are these considerations : — 



There are no markings to be observed except those in the Cup 

 form. 



These are in many cases deeper than any yet noted. 



They are all of the same size, and of the precise diameter of 

 holes made with the borers in use in the adjouiing Cheesewring 

 Granite-quarries. 



Granite has been wrought "vvithin the enclosure where these 

 marks occur ; as is shown by one or two sjDlit stones, and by a 

 partly-wrought broken cider-press. 



It is not clear why any person should have taken the great 

 trouble required to make these numerous marks ; but, on the other 

 hand, idle men or boys might spend the idle hour after duiner, in 

 summer time, in lazily digging at them. 



Mr. Cornish, in conclusion, remarks that there being no proof 

 one way or the other, the presumptions are in favour of the 

 modern origin of these markings ; and he suggests that inquiry 

 should be made. 



Attention was first called to these markings by Mr. W. J. 

 Henwood of Penzance. 



The following presents for the Museum were exliibited : 



From the Eev. J. W. Murray : A Veda, engrossed on Palmyra 

 leaf, in the Palee character and language, which is the same in 

 Southern India, Travancore, and Ceylon, as Sanscrit is in Northern 

 India — a dead language and called Sacred — that in which their 

 mysteries are recorded. 



From Mr. Cams- Wilson : A specimen of lump-fish, Lumpus 

 Anglorwn, caught, in May, 1867, in a lobster-pot at Newquay. 



Tliere were also exhibited : 



From Mr. Jonathan Couch, of Polperro : Drawings of a rare 

 fish — Echineis remora. (An account of this fish and its capture 

 appears among the Papers in the present Number of the Journal). 



Rev. C. E. Sowell, on behalf of Mr. R. Hosken, jun., of Pen- 

 ryn, exhibited a bronze celt and a small bell. The celt was found 

 in the stump of an oak tree at Jago's Croft, when the ground 

 there was being prepared for the Falmouth Reservoir ; and the 

 bell, on which was a design much like an episcopal mitre, was 

 found in the garden of College House, Penryn. Interest attached 

 to them from their having been found on the grounds of Glasney 

 College. Our readers will remember that an interesting Paper ou 



