The past in the present: what is civilisation? (1880)
Mitchell, Arthur, Sir, 1826-1909 · Edinburgh : D. Douglas · leaf 155
ined one from Hilderston, in Linlithgowshire (Fig. 100).Occasionally, however, the shape is different. Sometimes,for instance, the weavers smoothing-stone is nothing but arolled pebble, like the specimen sent from Berwickshire to 132 THE PAST IN THE PRESENT. Professor Duns, and represented in Fig.… … Fig. 102.—Smoothing-stone from Glencairn, Dumfriesshire (5£ inches long).Heavy spar. Polished on sides and ends. vol. i. p. 280.) Another stone of this shape came to Dr.Duns from Bathgate, but its smaller size, and the pointedform of one of its ends, perhaps make it doubtful whetherit is really a…
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