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distilling. I have also found large fragments of bones, and a piece of 

 a human jaw with two teeth in it. 



I hope soon to send you the drawings and a regular report.' 

 Fraserpett, 29th August, 1868. 



It would seem from this, that little hope existed of being able to trace 

 out the history of these curious remains by any investigation of the 

 names or words applied to them, which were all of modern construction. 



The discovery alluded to in the last sentence of Captain Cole's note 

 was among the most important yet made, and he had solicited that, if 

 possible, the portion of human jaw referred to, might be forwarded to 

 Calcutta for comparison. 



The President further said, that he had brought down to the meet- 

 ing a volume of the Transactions of the Literary Society of Bombay, 

 in which a very interesting account was given of curious remains of a 

 somewhat analogous character, which occurred a little more to the south 

 than Coorg, namely, near the Palghat. The title of the paper was one 

 which would scarcely lead any one merely consulting the Index to 

 suppose that it related to such rough structures of stone of a rude and 

 early age. It was entitled, "On the Pandoo coolies of Malabar," the 

 word coolies here being a corruption of the word Kill or Kull, signi- 

 fying a stone. He did not mean to refer to the interesting details 

 given in the paper, but simply to direct attention to the plates which 

 accompanied it, and which gave excellent representations of the pottery, 

 glass beads, iron implements, &c, found in these Kulls, and of the 

 mode in which they were originally placed in them. The remark- 

 able fact was, that there was not among them a single object, which 

 could not be paralleled by objects similar or even identical in shape, 

 material, &c, found in many places in Northern Europe. The character 

 of these articles would indicate a time more advanced in the arts and 

 in civilization than those of the people who constructed the Cromlechs 

 and Kistvaens of Coorg. But it did not necessarily follow from this, 

 that they were of later date. Two tribes, or even portions of the same 

 race, might readily have existed contemporaneously, but in very differ- 

 ent stages of progress in the arts, &c. 



The President then said, he had much pleasure in laying before the 

 Meeting a paper by Mr. F. S. Growse, C. S., Fatigurh, on the Poems 

 of Chand, of which communication the Philological Secretary would 

 only give a short abstract, as it was to appear in full in the Journal. 



