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To the best of my belief, but one example of a polished celt 

 has been met with in the Madras Presidency,* 1 and even that was only 

 a fragment of a stone hatchet, which was picked np on the crest of a 

 hill six miles north of Mercara in Coorg. So that it is almost abso- 

 lutely true that there is no evidence of the former existence of manu- 

 facturers of polished celts in Southern India. 



Mr. Foote has recorded the occurrence of some perforated stones 

 which are similar to those I shall presently describe from some other 

 regions. 



Hyderabad (Nizam's Territory) and the Berars. 



In these regions Messrs. Blanford and Fedden, of the Geological 

 Survey, have collected a considerable number of specimens of imple- 

 ments which correspond to the Madras types, both in form and 

 material ; but they have also obtained some made of flinty inter- 

 trappean rocks, whose condition, resembling hornstone, has been 

 produced by the baking action of the basalt sheets. I believe some of 

 the specimens which have been obtained are approximate in character 

 to the polished celts ; but I have not the means of reference by me. 



Central Provinces and Bandelkhand. 



The chipped quartzites from the Central Provinces are very similar 

 in character to those from Madras. The most considerable collections 

 have been made in the Saugor district ; but odd specimens have been 

 picked up at various points throughout, and as far to the east as Sam- 

 bulpur, at a locality not far from where specimens were found in the 

 adjoining territories of Orissa. All the above were picked up on the 

 surface, unconnected with any deposit of determinable age ; but at 

 Bhutra, in the Narbada valley, a most important discovery was 

 made by Mr. Hacket, of the Geological Survey, who found several 

 implements, which were distinctly in situ, in osseous deposits of 

 pleistocene age. The bones so associated with these traces of man were 

 of Hexaprotodon, and other extinct mammalia : there were also fossils of 

 several species of still existing ITr s u s.t IhvicS 



Examples of the flakes and cores occur in great abundance in the 

 region about Jabalpur, and for considerable distances along the edge of 

 the great Dekan trap sheet. Their occurrence has been described in a 

 number of communications, published in the Proceedings of the Asia- 

 tic Society of Bengal, the references to which are given in the Table 

 below. 



The instances of polished celts being found in the Central Pro- 

 vinces seem to be few ; but I am aware that there are some regard- 

 ing which, unfortunately, no facts have been published, and I do not 

 possess the details by me. 



* Vide Note added in the Press, p. 413. 



t Records Geol. Survey of India, 1873, pp. 50, b"i 



