1894. MIOCENE MAN IN INDIA. 3+7 



214, 249, 259, etc., and the Manual of the Geology of India, i8yg, 

 vol. i., pp. 440-442. 



II. — The gravels and other materials drifted and arranged by 

 rivers in remote times, when the levels of the country differed from 

 those of the present time, and necessarily long before the rivers had 

 settled down in the valley which they now drain, have frequently been 

 found to contain other chipped flakes and rude tools of stone. Some 

 of the latter, from the lateritic deposits in Madras and North Arcot, 

 have been noticed by Foote and others in the Quart. Joimi. Geol. See, 

 vol. xxiv., 1868, pp. 484, etc. ; Evans's Stone Implements, etc., 1872, 

 p. 570 ; Memoirs Geol. Surv. India, vol. x., 1873, pp. 43-58 ; Manual of 

 the Geology of India, 1879, pp. 358, 369, and 441. A similar quartzite 

 implement was found in the Narbada (Nerbudda) Valley by Mr. 

 Hacket {ibid., 1889, p. 386, pi. xxi., fig. i ; and in the second edition, 

 1893, P- 388). Others have been discovered in Assam, Bengal, 

 Orissa, and elsewhere (Mrt««rt/, 1879, p. 441). A "palaeolithic celt" 

 was found in the Punjab by Mr. W. TheohdUd [Records, etc., vol. xiii., 

 part 3, 1880, p. 176). 



Large cores and flakes from the bed of the River Indus, near 

 Sikkarpoor or Sukkur, in Upper Sind, were found by Lieut. 

 Twemlow 3 or 4 feet below the river-bed, in excavations made 

 for some canal work. These consisted of the cream-coloured flint of 

 the Nummulitic Limestone. Some of the cores were described and 

 figured by Mr. (now Sir) John Evans in the Geol. Mag., vol. iii., 

 i866, p. 433, pi. xvi. ; and a note on the locality was given in the 

 Geol. Mag., vol. iv., 1867, by General Twemlow, who had some flakes 

 also, one of which he gave me, together with a core. One of these 

 cores from near Sukkur, on the Indus, is figured in the Manual Geol. 

 India, vol. i., 1879, p. 442, pi. xxi., fig. 3 ; and flakes of this 

 Nummulitic flint are there described as being common in Sind. 



Small chalcedonic cores from the banks of the Mahanuddy River 

 are mentioned in Evans's Si^o«5 Implements, etc., 1872, p. 21. So also 

 small agate cores, found by Lieut. Irwing in the Nerbudda alluvium, are 

 alluded to in Geol. Mag., vol. iii., 1866, pp. 93 and 283. Chipped 

 stone implements also were found on the affluents of the Kishna, by 

 Foote, + in conglomerates on the Malprabha and its affluent the 

 Beni-halla, in the South Mahratta country, where " fine, well-shaped, 

 and mostly large-sized chipped quartzite implements " are very 

 numerous wherever the red lateritic subsoil, which is older than the 

 alluvium, is exposed. 



A very definite ridge-flake of agate was found by Mr. Wynne in the 

 ossiferous conglomerate on the Upper Godavery, near Pyton (Paitan) 

 south of Arunzabad. It is noticed in the Geol. Mag., vol. iii., 1866, 

 pp. 93, 94, and 283, and in the Records Geol. Survey India, vol. i., part 3, 

 1868, pp. 61-65, with a plate. It is also mentioned and illustrated 



Memoirs Geol. Survey India, vol. xii., part i., 1876, p. 241. 



