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" Mr. King said : — In April 1865, I found frequent specimens of 

 chipped stone implements of the different types already met with by Mr. 

 Foote, of the Government Survey, and myself in the neighbourhood of 

 Madras, lying scattered over the surface of the eastern side of the 

 Khoondair or central valley of the Kuddapah and Kurnool districts of 

 that Presidency. They were principally found in that part of the valley 

 which lies in the Kurnool district, and were generally of the flat oval 

 form, that is, an oval, either long or short, having one end longer and 

 more pointed than the other, and with — what I take to be a very dis- 

 tinctive mark of an artificially worked or chipped stone — a more or 

 less regular and wavy sharp edge all round the larger periphery of the 

 stone and in the same plane. The other form, not so commonly found, 

 viz., a supposed axe-head, with one straight edge at the longer end, 

 met by lateral edges from the short end, were also met with. 

 All these were lying about irregularly, sometimes out on the open 

 plains and on the rising grounds ; or, as was more frequently the 

 case, in the beds of the little lateral valleys of the streams. In the 

 latter cases, the implements appeared to have been washed out of the 

 layer or layers of gravel and shingle which occasionally show in the 

 banks of these lateral valleys. 



" The principal localities about which these implements were found are 

 the villages of Roodrar and Madaypoor, and the country between and 

 south and north of them. In the beginning of last year, I was induced 

 to look more particularly over the ground around these places, and was 

 successful in finding some good specimens of implements in situ. 

 These occurred in deposits which I have called the ' Implement 

 gravels :' and which are only seen to any extent in this part of the 

 country along the eastern side of the Khoondair valley. Here these 

 gravels show up all the streams flowing from the Nullamullays, which 

 mountains border this side of the Khoond depression, and they are 

 exposed in nearly every well that has been sunk within four to six 

 miles of the bases of the mountains. The deposit generally consists 

 of a pale yellow and greyish coarse clay, more or less filled with 

 coarse sandy particles, fine gravel, or shingle. The gravel and shingle 

 occur in irregular layers which are sometimes totally separate, but 

 generally run into one another until they form often a thick bed at 

 the bottom of the formation. I have never seen the whole deposit over 



