The author would scarcely have penned this little specimen of what Scott called " antiquarian old womanries", but for the interest which he takes in the universally diffused archaic patterns on rocks and stones, which offer a singular proof of the identity of the working of the human mind. Anthropology and folklore are the natural com­panions and aids of prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology, and suggest remarks which may not be valueless, whatever view we may take of the disputed objects from the Clyde sites.