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linos in white, which are placed round the edge of the circle, but 

 which though rudely radiating from the centre do not extend to the 

 centre. This small tabular piece of cornelian is also bored through 

 on the flat, and would seem to have formed an appropriate finish or 

 terminal for a necklace, or ornament composed of these beads. 



The only other article sent up by Captain Cole, remaining to be 

 noticed, is also figured on Plate V. This is a circular disc, measuring 

 1-' T inch across, and in thickness, a little less than £ of an inch. 

 The outer edge of this disc has originally been scolloped, or indented, 

 in a succession of slight equidistant curves, now a good deal broken 

 or worn. The centre of the disc is pierced by a circular opening of 

 J inch in breadth, surrounded by a raised curved rim or border. 

 From this centre opening, there also passes to the circumference of 

 the disc, an open slit or cut about T \ inch in width, the edges of 

 which are not ornamented with a rim similar to that encompassing 

 the centre space. 



These are all the remains which have been kindly transmitted to 

 us by Captain Cole through the Chief Commissioner of Mysore. All 

 are figured in the accompanying Plate. 



I have spoken as yet only of the external form of them. I would 

 add a few words as to the materials and construction. As already 

 noticed, there is nothing in the material or form of the earthen vessels 

 to distinguish them from such as might be made and are made at the 

 present day, very commonly. They are rude in manufacture, and 

 give no evidence of any particular care either in the preparation of the 

 material or the fashioning of the vessels. Indeed, what evidence they 

 do afford, rather proves an absence of this care. 



But the other remains indicate a very different degree of manufac- 

 turing skill. The beads or bugles, as I have called them, are all of hard 

 stone : they have been carefully selected, ground down to a tolerably 

 uniform length, and size, and shape, and have been carefully bored. 

 These results, in themselves, indicate an amount of skill, in those who 

 manufactured these beads, by no means contemptible. It is almost 

 impossible to conceive a large number of beads of this kind, of a very 

 hard material, reduced to symmetrical and cylindrical form, without 

 the use of mechanical appliances, which, however rude they may 

 have been, evidence an acquaintance with grindstones, and grinding 



