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on the surface of the ground. On the plateau south, on which 

 Killoomer hill is situated, some 600 feet above the valley, six or seven 

 were found." 



Mr. Ball then read the following note : — 



" I have to record a single addition to the scanty collec- 

 tion of stone implements which have been found in Bengal. The 

 specimen I now exhibit was found on the surface, at an elevation of 

 about 700 feet, near the village of Gopeenathpoor, which lies 11 

 miles S. S. W. of Beherinath hill in the district of Manbhoom. 

 Though of the same material (quartzite) it is much better shaped and 

 more symmetrical than any of the specimens which I described in 

 the communication I made to the Society in 1865.* This superiority 

 of workmanship makes it approximate much more closely to the 

 character of the implements from Madras than do any of the others. 

 The chief interest attaching to this discovery is, that the locality 

 is the most eastern in India, in which any trace of the ancient races 

 who manufactured these implements has been found ; no sign of 

 anything of the kind has been met with in the alluvium which 

 stretches for over a hundred miles further to the west. In Burmah 

 and Assam, it is true, implements have been found, but they are of a 

 very different type, and probably of a much more recent age. I 

 do not feel that this discovery of a single specimen justifies mo 

 in making any further remarks ; and I must content myself for the 

 present with the hope, that, in the examination of the lower portions 

 of Manbhoom, of Singbhoom and Dhalbhoom districts, formerly known 

 as the jungle mehals, and at present inhabited in parts by rude and 

 almost savage races, I may be sufficiently fortunate to make some 

 discovery, which will throw more light on this very interesting and 

 important subject." 



Dr. Anderson then exhibited some specimens of agate flakes which 

 were found in an old Andaman encampment, and which were 

 forwarded to the Society's Museum by Col. Haughton in Nov. 1861. f 



Mr. Ormsby, the general Secretary, directed the attention of the 

 meeting to some celts from the Indian Museum which had been 

 presented to the Society, in February, 1861, by H. P. LeMesurier, Esq., 

 Chief Engineer, Jnbblepore Line, E. I. R. 



These implements were of a much more finished description than 

 * Vide P. A. S. 1865, p. 27. f Vide P. i . 8. 1863, p. 306. 



