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Australia. One of the quartzite specimens, the smallest of the 
our, shows conchoidal fracture in the flat face and has been 
carefully chipped into an almost circular outline at the base. 
Hammer-stone.—This is a very siliceous quartzite 
small granules of kaolin that were interspersed with the quartz 
grains, leaving the stone somewhat open. It is also bleached 
3. Fabricator.—This tool is an oval-shaped, flattish 
pebble, 22 inches in the greater diameter, the parent rock 
stones were found where these implements occurred, but the 
Presence of this fabricator proves that such definitely shaped 
ones were in use at the time to which the remains belong. 
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no signs of having been used in any way, but it could only have 
occurred in the position in which it was found except by 
human agency. : 
THE AcE or THE ABORIGINAL REMAINS. 
~ The mean level of the site on which the excavation was 
ag according to official figures, is at or about high-water 
evel. The situation is near the western margin of the flood 
Waters of the River Torrens over the area known as the Reed- 
beds, and about half or three-quarters of a mile to the 
