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there is still apparent, on the largest flaked surface, the peculiar conical 

 area of fracture called by archrclogists, the " core of percussion." 



The third specimen was a very rude one, and is probably not an 

 implement. It was very coarsely weathered and fractured, and does 

 not possess a continuous plane edge all round its larger periphery. 

 It was interesting at the time of its being found, from its being the 

 only approach to a stone weapon which Mr. King had seen in the hilly 

 country of the Kurnool district. 



In the absence of the author, Mr. Blanford read the following note 

 by Mr. Wilson of the Geological Survey. 



" The chipped stones I send, form a portion of a large collection 

 I made last season. I found them scattered generally widely over 

 the trap area, forming the southern boundary of the district of 

 Saugor, and the northern to the Nerbudda valley, — the highest 

 ground of the scarp being covered with trap. They always occur 

 in the surface soil, mostly black clay, called cotton soil ; but in all 

 cases the underlying trap rocks protruded in lumpy masses here 

 and there through the soil, in which the chipped specimens were found. 

 The only other fragments I ever found associated with them, were 

 those of intertrappean rocks, and once a large fragment rolled of 

 jasper. 



" On the trap forming a large flat, and the summit of the scarp, 

 two miles east of where the new road from Nursingpoor to Saugor 

 crosses it, several specimens were found scattered about. This 

 flat overlooks the sandstone area to the north- east, 10 miles 

 westwards on the same plateau on the trap. Several more were 

 picked up 11 miles north, again near Moar village, south of Deoree. 

 Several more again on trap along the edge of the main ranges of 

 trap hills, close to and north of Deoree. Some three dozen specimens 

 were found along the north side of the Sookcher nullah, north and 

 westwards of Deoree ; and in the centre of the trap area four specimens 

 were picked up, in surface soil, on traps. 



" The Duhar nullah which crosses the Saugor and Deoree road, 

 midway between the two, is bounded on the east by a high plateau 

 of trap, on which several specimens were found. Sandstone shows 

 in patches in the nullah bed, some 50 feet below. In the Singrampoor 

 valley, between Jubbulpoor and Dumoh, I found 7 or 8 specimens* 



