UNCOMMON TYPE OF STONE IMPLEMENT. 
good enough to make them available to this Museum for 
examination. These two implements have been illustrated in 
outline by Edge Partington, Pacific Islands Album III, 1898, 
p.142. An inferior illustration of No. 2 appears in Eylmann, 
Die Eingeborenen der Kolonie Sudaustralien, 1908, PI. XXII, 
fig. 10. 
3. From Deighton Station, Lake Victoria, Gippsland, Vic. Fig. 3, 
Plates IX and X. 
Fine grained compact basalt. The surface is oxidised to a 
depth of about .06 inch, and is much altered and smoothed by 
weathering. No traces of hammer-dressing remain. The edge 
is very rounded and blunt except at one extremity; the 
opposite extremity has been broken. 
Weight, 12 lb. Length, 13.25 inches. 
National Museum, No. 24668. 
4. From Yarraman Creek, near Cooyar, Darling Downs, 
Queensland, 40 m. N. of Toowoomba. Fig. 4, Plate IX. 
The following description is based on a note in the Pro- 
ceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, Vol. XXIX, 1917, 
p. xvi, and on a plaster cast of the implement now in the National 
Museum. 
Medium grained basalt, considerably weathered. Under a 
thin brown ironstained coating there is a rather thicker layer 
of weathered felspatic material resting on the darker and 
fresher rock. The implement is well-shaped and symmetrical. 
The edge is reasonably good but not sharp. 
Said to have been found below the surface of the ground. 
Length, 9 inches. 
Queensland Museum, No. Q.E. 1228. 
5. From Kallara Holding, Darling River, N .S.W., 40 m. S.W. 
of Louth. Fig. 5, Plate IX. 
This implement has been described and illustrated in 
Records of the Australian Museum XVI 1927-28, p. 248, PI. 
XXVII, fig. 2. The director of the Australian Museum has 
been good enough to send the implement to Melbourne for 
examination. 
Ferruginous quartzite, slightly patinated. The implement is 
roughly chipped all over except for a small area on one face 
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