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ber of faces nearly plane or slightly concave, of considerable length in 

 comparison to their breadth, and in general parallel to the longer 

 axis of the block. 



" The snbprismatic cores (PI. II., figs. 1-4, PI. III., figs. 11, 12) ap- 

 proach most nearly to those represented in European works. (Compare 

 Lubbock's Prehistoric Times, PI. X., fig. 6, and fig. 61, p. 65.) Many 

 of the Jubbulpoor specimens, however, are far neater, a circumstance 

 perhaps due to the greater homogeneity of the material. The sub- 

 conical forms (PI. II., figs. 5-12, PL III., figs. 8, 9) are, however, the 

 most curious. I have seen no figures of similarly shaped cores from 

 Europe. Many of the present specimens are so beautifully shaped, 

 and the facets forming them are so regular and equal, that it is diffi- 

 cult to avoid the impression that these little cones were the objects 

 desired by the manufacturer, and that the chips were merely acci- 

 dental. Both Lieutenant Swiney and Mr. Rivett-Carnac adopted 

 this view, looking upon the prismatic and conical forms as arrow 

 heads or lance heads respectively ; and Mr. Rivett-Carnac ingeniously 

 suggested, in a paper published in the Nagpoor Journal, that the im- 

 perfect notches seen on many of the specimens were intended to be 

 fitted into a hollow bamboo or reed, that the locality at Jubbulpoor 

 was a great manufactory, and that the specimens we now find are the 

 failures, not the 'finished weapons. To this opinion it may be ob- 

 jected ; 1st, that some of the specimens found (e. g. PL II., fig. 1, and 

 PL III., fig. 4) do not appear at all to be shaped into any form avail- 

 able for a weapon ; 2nd, that every gradation is found, from the most 

 perfect cones to rough blocks, from which two or three flakes only have 

 been split, and 3rd, especially, that the form of the most finished 

 specimens we have (e. g. PL III., fig. 9) is totally unfitted for 

 a weapon intended to pierce, the angles formed by its sides at the 

 point being too obtuse, and its transverse section being nearly circular, 

 whilst that of all lance heads, and of most arrow heads, even amongst 

 the rudest and least intellectual of races, is more or less elliptical, with 

 the ends of the major axis sharp. With respect to the notches, I am 

 convinced that they are accidental ; in an attempt which I made to 

 imitate some of these cores, (in which I may add, to the credit of 

 the stone people, that, with all the advantages derived from the pos- 

 session of an iron hammer, I failed egregiously,) I found that the 

 notches were far more easily produced than avoided. 



