Stone Implements in lateritic formations. S 



"with mentioning it in a letter to my friend and colleague 

 Mr. King and showing it to different members of my family. 



As I was leaving Palaveram the very evening I found 

 the Implement, I could not at the time extend my researches 

 for further specimens, but a careful search made in January 

 last put me in possession of two further Implements of much 

 more perfect shape than the first. 



The figure and description of this first Implement will be 

 found further on. 



Although my attention had been thus awakened, and I 

 kept carefully looking out for Implements in other places 

 where the lateritic gravels contained pebbles or fragments oC 

 quartzite, I did not meet with any more for several months. 



On the 28th September last, my colleague Mr. King, who 

 had accompanied me to see some sections of the plant-bear- 

 ing-shales (of the Stri Permatoor series) in the Atrampak- 

 kum nullah (1) (a tributary of the Cortelliar) picked up two 

 well-shaped oval Implements on a little terrace of quartzite 

 shingle in the bed of the stream. 



The true nature of these Implements was so unmistakeable, 

 that we immediately commenced searching for more, and in a 

 few minutes were well rewarded, by finding several others 

 as we walked up the dry bed of the nullah. 



The condition of the Implements found showing evidently 

 that they came from somewhere near at hand, we resolved 

 to search the banks of the nullah very closely in order if 

 possible to discover other Implements in situ. 



The following day we proceeded to examine the nullah 

 and its tributary gullies, commencing where the lateritic 

 gravel first becomes well exposed on the west side of the 



(1) Note. — By some mistake this village is called Nirumpauk on the 

 Atlas sheet No. 78. All the places named will be found on that Map on 

 which the general features of the country are also well laid down, 



