1*2 Mr. R Bpojce Foote on the occurrence of 



merits are found scattered on the surface where the laterite 

 has been eroded by atmospheric agencies. 



The Implements many of which were dug up here in 

 presence of Mr. Robinson appear from a sketch, of their 

 various forms he has kindly furnished me to agree with 

 those found in the Atrumpaukum nullah sections and to be 

 susceptible of the same classification as further on proposed 

 for the Implements from the latter locality. 



The few specimens from Kircumbaddy which have come 

 under my notice were of coarser workmanship than the 

 majority of those found in the Madras District. 



The quartzite pebbles occurring in these lateritic con- 

 glomerate beds in such vast numbers are derived not direct- 

 ly from the quartzite rocks forming such grand scarps on 

 the Ramagherry and- the Naggery mountains lying a few 

 miles to the N. W. and N., but from certain beds of coarse 

 conglomerates and sandstones forming the main mass of 

 the groups of low rounded hills lying east and south east of 

 those mountains. 



In the sandstones associated with these coarse conglome- 

 rates, Mr. King discovered in the neighbourhood of Satta- 

 vedu vegetable remains apparently identical with some 

 occurring in the shales of the Stripermatoor series, and there 

 can be little or no doubt of their belonging to the latter 

 very important series of fossiliferous formations, although 

 they have not as yet been discovered in contact with, them 

 because of the great continuity and thickness of the talus 

 of debris occurring every where around their base. These 

 old conglomerates to which Mr. King has assigned the name 

 of Sattavedu conglomerates, are of great thickness, and 

 cover a considerable tract of country. 



They are as a rule extraordinarily coarse, the included 

 thoroughly water- worn masses varying in size from small peb- 



