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remunerative, and these limits corresponded in a striking degree to the well- 

 defined boundaries between two formations — the metamorphic and the sub- 

 metamorphic. In the area occupied by the former, gold was not absent ; but 

 its abundance as contrasted with that in the latter, I ascertained . . . was 

 in the proportion of 1 to 3. Hence, as the washers only managed to eke out a 

 bare subsistence in the sub-metamorphic area, they confined their operations 

 to it " (260). Thus the search for gold has caused a definite concentration of 

 population on a geological formation. This is well shown by comparing the 

 present-day distribution of the Gonds with that of gold. The map shows 

 clearly that the movements of this tribe have been controlled, as Mr. Ball 

 says, by their occupation of gold-washing. Thus in India we see actually at 

 work the process of segregation of population on a geological formation that I 

 have postulated from the distributions of megalithic remains in England. 

 The parallel is the more striking in that the Gonds themselves still erect 

 monuments of the megalithic type. Thus in the Gonds we have an example 

 of a megalith-building people segregating themselves on gold-producing 

 geological formations, and thus providing an exact confirmation of the results 

 of this paper. 



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