8 Mr. R Bruce Foots on the occurrence of 



there is no good reason to doubt the identity of the beds 

 b, c and cl of the above section with the corresponding beds 

 in the pagoda gully section. 



A small excavation was made in this gully, and about 

 half a cubic yard of the lateritic conglomerate (d) thrown 

 down, and found to contain several Implements of small size 

 and not very good shape. Although the conglomerate looked 

 rather friable, it was found to be very tough and compact, 

 and it took a long time to break it down, though a strong 

 man was set to it armed witli a heavy English pickaxe. 



From the side of a little gully tributary to a stream fall- 

 ing into the Atrampakkam nullah from the north, and at a 

 spot about J a mile E. of Nelway village, a very fine Imple- 

 ment (Plate VI) was extracted with no little trouble from 

 a very hard bed of lateritic conglomerate. It was imbedded 

 fully 3 V below the top of the bed close to the bottom of the 

 gully which does not cut through the conglomerate so as to 

 reveal its whole thickness. On the high ground about a 

 mile to the N. E. of this gully (which is immediately north 

 of a lime kiln), several poor and partly broken specimens of 

 Implements were found weathered out of the laterite rock 

 and scattered over the surface a few hundred yards to the 

 N. W. of a village of the name of Cunjalum, which is not 

 shown on the Atlas sheet No. 78. Amongst these was a 

 small one figured on Plate XIV, which is interesting as being 

 the only specimen of an arrow-head hitherto met with. The 

 very compact laterite rock on this high ground bears a strik- 

 ing resemblance to the typical rock at the Red Hills near 

 Madras and at Capper's Hill near Cuddalore — at the former 

 of which places unmistakeable Stone Implements have been 

 discovered by Dr. Cornish of the Madras Medical Service. • 



The Cunjalum laterite contains many fewer quartzite 

 pebbles and fragments than are found in the conglomerate 

 beds exposed in the nullah — which might be regarded as an 



