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Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 
Hon’ble H. B. Devereux,— proposed by the President, seconded by 
Colonel Baird Smith. 
J. J. Gray, Esq., Maldah, — proposed (for re-election) by Mr. 
Atltinson, and seconded by the president. 
A letter from Mr. C. G. Wray, announcing his withdrawal from the 
Society, was recorded. 
The following letter from Mr. H. P. LeMesurier, Chief Engineer, 
Jubbulpore Line, E. I. R., was read to the meeting : — 
Allahabad, January 1 Mh, 1861. 
A. Gbote, Esq., C. S. 
Deae Sie,— I have to-day forwarded to your address a small 
box containing twelve specimens of stone hatchets or celts, which you 
may consider worthy of a corner in the Museum of the Asiatic Society. 
the circumstances under which these relics have been brought to 
light are as follows : — 
Early in January, 1860, I was exploring the range of Ghats west- 
ward of the Chachye Palls on the River Tonse, 24° 47' 30" N. Lat., 
81° 20' 45" E. Long. ; passing through the village of Neehee 24° 59' 
30 N. Lat., 81° 9' 40" E. Long. I halted my riding camel near the 
village Mahadeo and Peepul tree. Whilst talking to the Zemindar 
my eye caught the outline of two stones resting against the upright 
Mahadeo, which stones I at once .recognized as celts. 
I dismounted, and found five celts of various sizes, more or less 
perfect strewn, around the Hindu emblem. 
1 he Zemindar said, he did not know where they came from, but he 
concluded his forefathers had placed them where I now saw them, 
and he therefore performed his devotions before them with the same 
forms and ceremonies as his ancestors had done. 
He was willing enough to give them to me for a trifling consider- 
ation, more especially when I explained to him that they had in all 
probability been originally used for killing and flaying cattle, or other 
similar purposes. 
The discovery of these celts rekindled my antiquarian zeal. Mr. 
Alexander Grant and one or two other members of the Engineering 
1 0f the Jubbulpore Railway became also interested in the subject, 
and celts were discovered in considerable numbers during the months’ 
of January, February and March. Starting from the river Tonse at 
iac ye the following somewhat irregular line will circumscribe the 
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