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but distinctly separate, none of the chips as a rule being found in the 

 rough beds, and but few of the rough agates intermixed with the 

 chipped stones. 



" Should this fact be further confirmed by the experience of other 

 collectors, it will tend to indicate very conclusively that the manufac- 

 tured flints were collected and massed for a purpose." 

 " Seonee, January 10th, 1869." 



The President said, the cores and flakes submitted to the So- 

 ciety, were of precisely the same general character as others which 

 had been more than once met before. One of the interesting facts 

 noticed by Colonel Oakes was, the finding these chips in heaps by 

 themselves, unmixed with the rough agates, out of which they had been 

 formed, and on the other hand none of the chipped flakes were found 

 among the rough agates. Facts of a similar kind had been noticed in 

 Europe also. He (the President) had himself seen in the north of Ireland, 

 where flint implements were commonly found, similar heaps composed 

 of nothing but the chips and fragments of rough flints, with occasion- 

 ally a half-finished arrow-head, or, some other implements in the 

 heap. These had evidently been the seats of manufacture of these 

 flint-implements ; and what were now found were only the rude chips 

 and fragments remaining after the production of the more useful and 

 finished implements found out of these agates, and which had been 

 removed for use. 



Mr. W. Blanford said, that Colonel Oakes, hed shewn him the 

 localities whence the flakes and cores were derived near Jubbulpore, 

 and had gone over the ground with him. He had since met with 

 similar flakes and cores near Nagpore, as described to the Society in 

 1867. The quantity occurring near Jubbulpore was astonishing. 

 In reply to a question from the President, Mr. Blanford added, that 

 he had usually found such flakes to be abundant in small restricted 

 localities, frequently on the tops of low rises, where no rolled agates 

 occurred, and in such a manner as to leave it to be inferred that the 

 spot where they were found, was a place used for the manufacture 

 of agate flakes during probably a considerable period ; it may perhaps 

 have been the abode of a flake-maker. An instance which occurred 

 in Abyssinia had already been mentioned by him (Mr. Blanford). 

 Around a small granite hill, numerous such flakes of Obsidian were 



