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TRAVELLING some months ago among the Cumberland lakes, I was walking with a friend in advance of our conveyance through a narrow road, when my attention was suddenly arrested by the presence of some interesting shells and stones on the window-sill of a peasant's cottage. Stopping to admire them, or rather having taken some of them up in my hand, the woman of the house—an intelligent person—came out, whereupon I apologised for my seeming rudeness, and asked where she got them. She at once accepted my apology, and added that they, pointing to the shells and stones, were often looked at by other travellers. She further added that they were common enough in the Derwent River hard by, and she made no difficulty at all about accepting sixpence for the two of them I selected.
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CURRAN, W. Perforated Stones in River Beds. Nature 21, 348 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021348c0
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