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as well as from our first day's work, when we had approached 

 from the opposite direction, that we were as near No. 49 as 

 we could ever hope to be, and that the locality answered with 

 sufficient accuracy to the description and drawing given by Dr. 

 Noetling. It was, of course, impossible to be wrong except in a 

 north and south direction, as the ferruginous conglomerate is 

 unmistakable, and occurs only once on the eastern side, and, as 

 we had estimated the distance with the map both from Minlin 

 Hill and from the cart-road to the north, we could feel fairly 

 certain of the exact spot. We breakfasted on the plateau, about 

 one hundred and fifty yards back from the edge, and afterwards, 

 while I was endeavouring to fit together the fragments of tooth I 

 had found, Col. Nichols walked a little farther to the east over 

 the plateau to survey the direction of the " yos," and returned 

 with a handful of flint chips which he had picked up on the 

 plateau not thirty yards off. They were very irregular pieces, 

 and not at all promising, but they were at any rate flint chips, 

 and we instituted a search on the spot, assisted by our Burman 

 servant and the cart-man. Within a radius of about fifty yards 

 we found a considerable number of pieces of different sizes and 

 shapes, from large rough lumps almost as big as the fist down to 

 little shavings ; and, as they were easily seen lying on the brown 

 earth among the short dry grass, we managed to collect, within 

 half an hour or so, a cartridge-wallet full. Unfortunately, it 

 seemed to us at the time so unlikely that these pieces should 

 really be identical with those considered by Dr. Noetling to be 

 Tertiary flints, that we did not notice many details as to how 

 they were lying which might have been useful. We noticed, 

 however, that the pieces were most numerous in the centre of 

 the area, and quickly grew less common at the outside, and after 

 a little ceased altogether. The larger pieces were all, I believe, 

 found somewhere near the centre of the area. The impression 

 we got at the time was that some lumps of flint had been either 

 found or brought there, and had been broken up on the spot for 

 some purpose, and that what we had found were the remains of 

 that operation. We did not examine them very carefully at 

 once, but detected one or two cores, and one or two pieces that 

 might have been rough implements. 



Having collected all we could without a very prolonged search 



