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specimen of the ordinary coast laterite type* It had been washed 

 out of the high-level shingle bed west of Nittur on the north bank 

 of the east to west reach of the Tungabhadra, 15 miles west-south- 

 west of Harappanahalli. 



I did not myself come across genuine palaeolithic implements 



of any kind or material within the limits of any 



thic fmpkmentrfrom of the man y neolithic sites on the hills around 



neafBe lll C ry. hnl ** Bellaiy ' th ° Ugh * searched for them strenuously 

 (except in the case of the solitary haematite- 

 jasper implement just referred to, lying loose on the bare surface of 

 a rock on the hill north of Kurikuppa). 



I saw no palaeolithic implements of any sort whatever in the col- 

 lections from the environs of Bellary and the Kapgal (Peacock 

 hill) made severally by my friends Mr. Robert Sewell, the Collector 

 of the district, and Mr. Henry Gompertz, Deputy Superintendent, 

 Survey of Madras,but I obtained a very doubtful specimen of the small 

 pointed type through the kindness of Mr. Hubert T. Knox, sometime 

 Judge of Bellary, who, when he retired from India, very generously 

 sent me a good number of specimens, mostly very choice ones of neo- 

 lithic age, to add to my collection. The specimen is an interesting but 

 very doubtful one, and I cannot make up my mind about its true age, 

 but am most inclined to regard it as an ill-shapen neolithic implement 

 in the first stage of manufacture, and extremely weathered. That the 

 palaeolithic people whose implements were found in some number in 

 the talus-fans of the Copper Mountain and on the north-east section of 

 the Sandur hill group, ranged over the hills on which the neolithic 

 stone-chippers long subsequently established important settlements 

 and as at Kapgul, a celt-making industry on a rather large scale, 

 cannot be doubted ; but that they had a regular 

 Alleged palaeolithic settlement there, as asserted in several letters 



settlement on Kapgal. 



to the Madras Mail in 1891 by burgeon- 

 Captain Fox, A. M. D., I most positively doubt, for I met with no 

 traces of them when I examined Kapgul hill most carefully on several 

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