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could be obtained for the fashioning of their implements of 

 stone, and in India fine-grained quartzites, trap-rocks, and 

 various forms of agate and chalcedony seemed to be the fav 

 ourite materials ; andsome of these, viz., agate and chalcedony 

 are to be obtained in the very area where the implement here de* 

 en bed was found, not in situ, of course, but in the form of peb- 

 bles in nyers draining down from the Satpura Hills, which are 

 composed of the Deccan Trap basalts. But the material used 

 tor the implement here described has, also, a very fine-grained 

 texture, and manganese-ore of this character tends to break 

 when hand specimens of it are prepared, with a conchoidai 

 fracture. It is not unlikely also that the high specific gravity 

 of the material may have imparted special value to an imple- 

 ment fashioned therefrom as compared with an implement made 

 of a lighter stone. Up till the present, this is the only speci- 

 men made of manganese-ore that has been found, but I hope 

 that district officers working in the districts of Nagpur, Chhind- 

 wara, Bhandara, and Balaghat in the Central Provinces, 

 where ore of this type is found, may, in the future, discover 

 other specimens of manganese-ore implements once they know 

 of their existence. Although I know of no other record of an 

 implement made of manganese-ore, yet Mr. V. Ball ' has re- 

 corded the receipt from Mr. W. G. Olpherts of an implement 



made of magnetic iron-ore and found somewhere in theXarbada 

 valley. 



1 Pro. As. Soc. Beng., 1881, p. 120. 



