Phillips.] ^b [May 21, 



baked, resembling in the bands, stripes, dots, &c., which constituted their 

 ornamentation, the work of tlie neolithic period. 



In the Troad in Asia Minor, at a town known as Hissarlik, very numer- 

 ous stone implements have been discovered, of types and sliapes analogous 

 to those usually met with in Europe, and are all fabricated of the same rocks 

 that occur in Turltey, Greece and the Archipelago. For example : 



Serpentine from Megara, Corinth, Delphos, &c. 



Jadeite from Thebes, Althea, Laconia, &c. 



Dionite from Sparta, Kleone, Amphycea, &c. 



AmphiboUtes from Lemnos, Archsea and the Peloponnesus. 



Syenite from Mycense. 



At this latter place Dr. Schliemann reports the discovery of tliirty-tive 

 arrow-heads of obsidian whose sliape was similar to those used in North 

 America. 



It is stated that in the museum of the evangelical seminary at Smyrna, 

 there are sixty different implements of stone which have been found in 

 Lydia and Phrygia, of which some were polished, others not. The forms 

 of the hatchets and of the hammers were similar to those previously discov- 

 ered in Greece. Mr. Pappadopoulos avers that the whole region of Icon- 

 ium is rich in relics of the stone age, and also that there are abundant ves- 

 tiges in various lakes of Asia Minor of lacustrian habitations, not unlike 

 those heretofore known in Switzerland. 



In Northern Africa stone implements have been found, especially at 

 Khenchela in Algeria. Here M. Jullien discovered quantities of worked 

 flints, generally of large size, although, for the most part, broken. In this 

 instance the finds occurred on the surface of the soil. 



Signor Bellucci found in thirteen different portions of the realm of 

 Tunis, no less than 2983 stone implements, being knives, arrow-heads, 

 discs, sling-stones, scrapers, bodkins, beaters, &c. From the surroundings 

 he drew the inference that a workshop for manufacture of stone imple- 

 ments had existed near Tunis. 



Messrs. Fraas and Zittel report, severally, similar discoveries in Libya and 

 the Libyan desert. Here the implements were associated with the remains 

 of quaternary animals. Mr. Fraas attributed the worked stones which he 

 found in Libya to the hand of man. 



A large collection of stone implements from the Cape of Good Hope, 

 came, a few years since, into the possession of the learned Dr. John Evans, 

 F.R.S., F.S.A., &c., of Hemel Hempstead, England, of which he has been 

 kind enough to write for me the following description : " They appear to 

 be of two different ages, some being apparently palaeolithic and closely re- 

 sembling in form those of the European river gravels and those in quartzite 

 from tlie latente deposits of Madras ; and others neolithic. Among these 

 latter are numerous flakes of basalt, probably lance-heads, and some well 

 wrought small spear-heads in flint. There are also hammer stones, both 

 perforated and with recesses on one or both sides (possibly these may be 

 more of the nature of mortars), and the usual ' digging stones ' for weight- 



