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considerable variety in proportions, and including Bos longifrons) 

 sheep, goats, deer, swine, dogs, &c. ; of shells, in great abundance, 

 especially those of Patella vulgaris and Littorina litorea ; a very 

 rude querne, &c. All of these have been deposited in the Museum 

 of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, in Edinburgh ; and are 

 considered, by those best qualified to judge of their age, to belong 

 to a period certainly as remote as the Koman occupation, or even 

 earlier. This opinion is greatly confirmed by the absence of all 

 trace of metallic implements, notwithstanding the most diligent 

 efforts on the part of Mr. Laidlay and his sons to discover any such 

 by having the entire soil upon the top of the rock (of which there 

 Mere many cart-loads) all carefully sifted by hand. 



This rock is not more, as to its lower part, than 22 or 23 feet 

 above high- water mark. Assuming that its age extends beyond 

 the historic period, it seems clear that, if the assumed elevation of 

 this coast, already mentioned, had taken place since the time of the 

 Eomans, this rocky promontory would not merely have been unin- 

 habitable at high water, but it would have been actually submerged. 

 As it is at present, the sea in rough weather renders it hardly 

 endurable to remain on the rock; whilst a very slight depression 

 would enable the waves to make a clean breach over it. 



Depot for the Manufacture of Flint Implements. — The inves- 

 tigation of the so-called " Devil's Pits " and " Grimes' Graves," near 

 Brandon, Norfolk, show that the working of flint at this spot dates 

 back to a far earlier period than the manufacture of gun-flints, now 

 also almost a thing of the past. The bottom of the pit has been 

 reached, disclosing a network of galleries extending into the chalk 

 in various directions. At the end of No. 1 Gallery a fine ground- 

 stone hatchet was discovered, and two well-worn horn-picks. These 

 caves were doubtless pre-hisforic chalk-workings for obtaining flint 

 for the manufacture of implements of which such numbers have 

 been obtained from the river- valley gravel close by. 



The early flint-implement makers of the Stone age seem to have 

 been as fully aware of the advantage of working a freshly dug out 

 flint as the modern gun-flint makers, a race of artisans now nearly 

 extinct. 



Ancient Kitchen-middens in the Andaman Islands. — Dr. Sto- 

 lickza has lately communicated to the Asiatic Society of Bengal an 

 account of a visit made by him to the Andaman Islands. 



These islands, inhabited by probably one of the very lowest 

 types of aborigines known, have abundant " refuse-heaps " of evident 

 antiquity, composed of shells, bones of the Andaman pig, stones, 

 and broken pottery. One of these mounds, which Dr. Stolickza 

 examined at the north end of Chatham Island, was 12 feet in height, 

 and about 60 feet in diameter; it had been long undisturbed, as 



