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and, in the majority of cases, can be with fair certainty grouped 

 into families belonging each to a separate original store, thus 

 proving that they are chips belonging to flints which were broken 

 up at the spot where they are now found undisturbed ? If the 

 chips have no connection with the Pliocene stratum, the difficulty 

 occasioned by their numbers and fitting together is got over, and 

 there is no necessity to do violence to one's feelings by supposing 

 that in some way or other the original flints must have got 

 chipped up spontaneously. 



On the first day we went from Thittabwe to Minlin Hill, 

 round the northern and eastern sides of which the ferruginous 

 conglomerate crops out, and began by examining the bed there, 

 as it is clear that, if chipped flints are a feature of this bed, they 

 may be found scattered throughout it, and not only at one 

 definite spot. Finding nothing, we searched Taung-ni-gale (the 

 small red hill), to the east of Minlin, where the conglomerate 

 outcrops on the surface, and where Dr. Noetling had previously 

 found some poor specimens ; but we were again unsuccessful. 

 We then proceeded in a northerly direction, towards No. 49, 

 crossed the Ye-dwin-aing Yo (a " Yo" is described in Stevenson's 

 Dictionary as a blind watercourse), and kept on till we calculated 

 we were somewhere near No. 49. As it subsequently turned out, 

 we were still a little to the south of it, when we stopped and 

 examined the conglomerate (which here runs in a general north 

 and south direction some fifty feet below the edge of a ravine), 

 and picked up a few rolled fragments of bone, and (in a small yo) 

 a few specimens of Batissa crawfurdi, which had apparently 

 rolled down the steep bank. As the day's work, we had examined 

 the conglomerate carefully from Minlin Hill almost up to No. 49. 



On the second day we crossed the oil-field from west to east 

 by the cart-track that leads by the gas-well, and continued on 

 till we came to where the conglomerate crosses the road at right 

 angles on the east side, and spent the day searching the con- 

 glomerate both north and south of this place, but chiefly to the 

 north, where it looked more promising. It continues to run 

 here some way below the edge of a ravine, and can be searched 

 without much difficulty. All this part was obviously in the 

 vicinity of No. 49, and, so long as we stuck to the conglomerate, 

 it did not seem to matter whether we were on the identical 



