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He writes: "These ruins are on a narrow spur of jasper, and 

 command the whole place to the south. The walls are about 2^ 

 to 3 feet high, built evenly of angular blocks of jasper, and are even 

 vertical, not sloping. They form a series of segments of circles 

 united to one another. (The existence of ruins at B. I learned on 

 good authority.) The pans they command are formed of dolomite, 

 on which are numerous engravings " — of asymmetrical patterns, not 

 of animals. " The drawings (engravings) are either contemporaneous 



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with or later than the ruins ; some engravings are much older than 

 others. These 'pans ' are the only source of water in the vicinity." 

 Answering further questions from me, Mr. du Toit adds : "The walls 

 of the ruins were made of hard jasper — a material quite unsuitable 

 for carving. -'^ The pans have dolomitic limestone on the slopes and 

 bottom, and the surface of limestone both on the surface and bottom 

 were covered with carvings." f 



* The hardness of the rock, as I have shown in a former chapter, did not prove 

 a deterrent to the sculptors of the best-finished scenes. 



t Figures somewhat of the same type have been found near Kuruman on rocks 

 forming the bottom of a pan. 



