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(do jib). This is the story which Dr. Stohr also hoard, and to him 

 must be accorded whatever credit is due to priority of publication. Dr. 

 Stohr's interpretation is, that he must have spoken two languages, and 

 was therefore a foreigner. Col. Dalton to whom I communicated the 

 story, has very kindly given its explanation as follows : "The legend 

 " of the two tongues shews that the potentate, to which it alludes, must 

 " have been a Nag, or one of the serpent race ; there can, I think, be 

 " little doubt that by the serpent race, the Kols are really meant, and 

 " as the great bulk of the population of Dhalbhum are Bhumiz, ergo 

 " Kols, it is not unusual to find the legend of two-tongued Rajahs 

 " among them." 



Hence this place has probably been inhabited by Kol Rajahs since the 

 time of the Seraks ; but whether the copper was worked by the 

 former, the latter, or by both, the remains at present to be seen do not 

 decide. They consist of a ridge or moat of clay which it is said 

 enclosed the gurh, but which now encloses and is itself enclosed by a 

 jungle of remarkably fine trees with dense undergrowth. Close by 

 are three old Serak tanks, and a great accumulation of copper-slag 

 indicating that this must have been one of the centres of operations. 

 Following the direction of the strike of the rocks which, from this 

 point, trends to S. W. and S., old workings and slag heaps can be 

 traced for many miles further ; the last being about 3 miles north 

 of Kamerara, on the Midnapore and Bombay road. 



All along this line wherever the people were sufficiently intelligent 

 to reply to the enquiries, the mines were invariably attributed to the 

 Seraks. At Ghatsillah, where the Dhalbhum Rajah (a minor) lives, 

 I received the same information. Here I also heard of some remains 

 at Karra-Mounda, six miles east of Kumerara. These I afterwards 

 examined, on entering the village the eye is at once attracted by & 

 number of rings of vitrified clay which are thickly scattered over the 

 surface, throughout an area exceeding in extent that covered by the 

 houses ; on removing the surrounding clay and rubbish, I found that 

 these rings were the sections of small furnaces which had become 

 covered up. 



The most plausible conjecture was, that this place was a depot in 

 which the rudely smelted copper, brought from the hills, was refined 

 and prepared for market. Several tanks in this neighbourhood are said 



