lo8 Proceeding* of tlie Asiatic Society. [Sept. 



connection with other specimens, the marks of their having been 

 subjected to the same treatment was unmistakeable. 



" I have been unable to trace the flakes in connection with the 

 extinct fauna of the Nerbudda and Godavery waters any further 

 than I mentioned last year. As a rule, the cores and flakes only 

 occur on the surface, or immediately beneath it, on the surface soil. 

 This is precisely the case with flakes and cores of similar form in 

 Europe. 



" The enormous number of cores which occur, and their widely spread 

 distribution, point either to a very large population using them, or, 

 which is the same thing, to a very long period of time during which 

 they were used. The former is unlikely, the latter extremely probable. 

 The race which used them was probably one of hunters and fishers, 

 scattered sparsely over the country. 



" At the October meeting, I mentioned that I had seen specimens of 

 cores, similar to those of Central India, brought from Sind. Speci- 

 mens from the bed of the Indus have since been figured in the 

 Geological Magazine, and I learn from Sir Bartle Frere, to whom 

 I sent some specimens of the Nagpoor cores, that similar chipped 

 siliceous fragments occur in bushels on the surface of the limestone 

 at Roree. The Sind cores are of chert, doubtless derived from the 

 nummulitic limestone, and they appear even to excel, in regularity 

 of form, the specimens from Central India. I stated in October that 

 I had seen no figures in European works of any of the sub-conical 

 forms of cores. After the meeting, copies of the first number of 

 Messrs. Christy and Lartet's Reliquiae Aquitanicce reached India, and 

 in one of the plates there are some specimens figured, precisely 

 similar to those of India, except in being much larger. 



" I have nothing to add as to the relative ages of the Madras form 

 of implements, the so-called axes, (not axes at all as I believe) 

 scrapers, &c, and of the agate and jasper cores and flakes. I have, 

 however, found specimens of the quartzite axe shaped implements 

 about half way between Nagpoor and Chanda ; again at Edlahad in 

 the Pemgunga valley, west of Chanda ; and a very beautiful specimen 

 at Maledi, W. N. W. of Sironcha. One or two specimens of the 

 same form, but composed of agate, were found by Mr. Fedden, in the 

 Pemgunga valley in S. E. Berar, but their form is not sufficiently 

 good to render their artificial origin quite certain." 



