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with the gravels much the same as was the case with those already 

 described : the one in the face of the bank, at 4 feet from the 

 surface : the other on the sloping edge of a cemented gravel bank 

 in the bed of the ruins. They are both flat ovals, but without pointed 

 ends : though slightly longer at one extremity than the other. They 

 were not at all easily extracted from the surrounding gravel : neither 

 were the three from the Madaypoor stream. 



" So far, except in one instance when the rather doubtful specimen 

 consisted of trap, our chipped implements of the Madras Presidency 

 have hitherto been all of quartzite ; but I was rather struck with the 

 occurrence at certain points, along the banks of these streams, of 

 scattered fragments of light and dark coloured chert, some of which 

 looked like small ' flakes.' These fragments were likewise, in places, 

 much crowded together, as though they had been broken off and left 

 there, for instance by modern workers as substitutes for flints, or other 

 uses to which chert might be put, or even that they might have been 

 collected and broken for amusement by the shepherds and their 

 children. There is, besides, a tribe of very uncultivated people, called 

 Chensulahs, inhabiting the jungle skirting the Nullamullays ; and they 

 might have taken to stone for arrow-heads, &c. I could, however, learn 

 nothing confirmatory of my suspicions ; and the Chensulah people use 

 iron arrow tips, or the simple hardened and pointed wood, while they do 

 not remember that stone was never used by their ancestors for such pur- 

 poses. Nevertheless, I did pick up a chipped fragment of chert, which 

 looks remarkably like as if it had been manufactured : it is of a rude 

 shield shaped oval form, short and blunt at one end, with a sharp edge 

 all round in the same plane, and is about 2 J inches long by 2 inches 

 broad. The general elevation of that part of the Khoondair referred to, 

 is from six to nine hundred feet above the sea. This is not, however, 

 the greatest elevation at which implements have been found in the 

 Madras Presidency : for I have picked them up in the Kuddapah 

 Sub-division, a little south of Raichotee, at about 1,400 feet." 



Mr. King then showed three specimens which he had found on the 

 surface in another series of valleys on the eastern side of the Nulla- 

 mullays. The first was a very flat oval, with an extremely acute and 

 sharp edge all round : which he supposed to have been a " skin- 

 scraper." In one of the other soecimens, a large axe-headed form, 



