198 GEOLOGY. 



A few were met with near Zulla, some were picked up 

 on the highlands, and two or three in the neighbourhood 

 of Magdala. But a much larger number were found at 

 Eairo, near Af Abed in the Habab, in the centre of a 

 granitoid country, and with no volcanic formation nearer 

 than the hills between Ain and the sea, at least twenty 

 miles distant. The fragments found are of no special 

 beauty ; no well-formed implements were obtained ; an^ 

 the occurrence of such chips is simply interesting, as 

 adding one more to the numerous countries in which 

 traces of the early use of rude stone implements by 

 mankind have hitherto been found. 



