Ball — On Ancient Stone Implements in India. 413 



NOTE ADDED IN THE PEESS. 



Since the foregoing pages were printed, I have had an opportunity, 

 through the kindness of Mr. Franks, of examining the collection of 

 Asiatic stone implements in the British Museum. I find it includes a 

 series of polished celts from the Shevaroy hills in the Madras Presi- 

 dency. No account of these has heen published, so far as I know. If 

 the locality is authentic, we have another instance of an outlier. Such 

 exceptions to the main features of distribution will possibly be from 

 time to time discovered, but they must become very numerous before 

 they can be considered to outweigh the facts upon which the general 

 conclusions in this Paper have been founded. 



The writer earnestly hopes that, in future, discoverers of stone im- 

 plements in India will recognise the importance of publishing a perma- 

 nent record of all the facts connected with their discoveries. 



It may be useful to add here Dr. Caldwell's views on the subject 

 of the successive waves of immigration which have served to constitute 

 the four separate strata into which the Indian population is at present 

 sub-divided.* 



First and earliest. The forest tribes, such as Kolas, Santals, Bhils, 

 &c, who may have entered India from the north-east. 



Second. The Dra vidians, who entered India from the north-west, 

 and either advanced voluntarily towards their ultimate seats in the 

 south of the peninsula, or were driven by the pressure of subsequent 

 hordes following them in the same direction. 



Third. We have the race of Scythian or non- Aryan immigrants 

 from the north-west, whose language afterwards united with the San- 

 skrit to form the Prakrit dialect of Northern India. 



Fourth. The Aryan invaders. 



The resemblance between the above, and the conclusions which I 

 have arrived at independently, more particularly as regards the source 

 of the Kolarian manufacturers of the polished celts, is sufficiently ob- 

 vious. 



"With regard to the Dravidians, who came from the north-west, it 

 may be that they were the people who manufactured the flakes, and 

 afterwards — when they had pushed off the Dekan Basalt further south 

 — took to making the chipped quartzite axes from a material which 

 then became more accessible to them. 



As I have before said, however, I leave it to ethnologists and phi- 

 lologists to work out this question in connexion with the data I have 

 collected. 



* I quote from Colonel Dalton's "Ethnology of Bengal," p. 244. Colonel 

 Dalton, in a foot note, demurs to the correctness of the inclusion of the Bhils with 

 the Kols, considering them to be rather Dravidian. See also on this subject 

 P. A. S. B., 1873, pp. 130-133. 



