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incontestably the former extension of these relics, on a very large 

 area, as Sibdilla is a town of Behar not far from the hills, but 200 

 miles east of the Tons and the celt district proper about Karoi or 

 Tirhowan. 



Most of the celts it will be seen once possessed a very sharp edge, 

 but there are some in the collection as Nos. 12, 13, 17 which though 

 well-finished, never seem to have been ground down to a cutting edge 

 and were probably used for other purposes than the sharp edged ones, 

 though what precise use that was, can scarcely be guessed at. For 

 comparison with these implements, I have laid on the table a few stone 

 chips for which I am indebted to Major Haughton from the Andamans, 

 the most finished of which might have been intended for arrow-head, 

 but the majority of which chips seem merely intended to be us^d 

 with the fingers in dividing fish or flesh. The round stone is also from 

 the same quarter and seems to have been used for much the same 

 purposes as the stone hammer from Powari. The four chips marked 

 with a cross may have very well been intended for tipping arrows, to 

 be used only against fish, but none of them would have been very 

 effective against the Andaman pig or indeed any land animal. As, 

 however, the Andamanese chiefly depend on fish, which they shoot with 

 arrows for their food, Major Haughton is probably correct in regarding 

 many of these chips as arrow-heads, though of a far slighter character 

 than the arrow-heads which are usually found accompanying celts. 

 The small agate fragment from Behar bears the appearance of being 

 the remnant of a larger shear, and whether intended as an arrow-point 

 or not, is, there is little doubt, an artificially formed piece of stone. 



A lump of chert from which chips have evidently been struck off was 

 found by Major Haughton together with the chips in a native 

 encampment and but from the place it was found in, would never have 

 attracted notice, though on examination it is clearly enough seen to 

 be the parent of chips, such as accompany it. The following table 

 gives the weights and dimensions of the long and short axes and 

 thickness of twelve selected celts, all from the Karoi district, varying 

 from 4ibs 9 oz. to 2 oz. 335 Grs. — the great bulk of the collection, 

 however, ranging from f to 1| ibs. 



