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celt-producing district in this part of India, beyond the limits of 
which, to the best of my knowledge, none of these instruments have 
been as yet discovered. 
From Chachye then westward to Simireah, Birsingpore, and on to 
Kotee, thence north nine miles to Putna, and so still northerly down 
the Pysunnee Nuddy to Tirhowan or Zirwee, from which town in 
an easterly direction towards Mhow on the J umna, 25 miles to Huttowa, 
thence E. S. E. 18 miles to Seorajpore, then south 11 miles to Punassa 
on Tonse, and so up Tonse S. W. back to Chachye. 
Up to the present date, I should suppose that we have discovered 
upwards of one hundred celts, and I have ceased to search lor them 
with any vigour in localities where they most abound. At Zirwee, 
for instance, a large number might be collected if there was any object 
to be gained by removing them from the temples and sacred places 
where they are now carefully stored. 
I have found upwards of fifty celts myself, invariably at the Maha- 
deos, which abound in and near every village, and I am not aware 
that a single celt has been found in such a position as would lead us 
to suppose that it had remained concealed or hidden from the notice 
of the present inhabitants of the country. 
Generally speaking, a single outlying celt is rare; there are moie 
frequently two or three, and sometimes five or six, if not under the 
same tree, at all events in the immediate neighbourhood. 
01 the celts which I forward to you, Nos. 1, 2, 3 were found near 
Manickpore, five or six miles north of Neehee near each other, perhaps 
within half a mile of the village. 
Nos. 4, 5 and 6 at Surreaon, five miles N. by W. of Manickpore, at 
one Mahadeo ; Nos. 7 and 8, at Zhoh, four miles E. of Zirwee, and 
No. 9 at Tirhowan. 
Tirhowan and Zirwee are two names for the same place. 
Of Nos. 10, 11 and 12, I have lost the record, but 1 tbink they 
are three specimens from a batch of thirteen, which a native official 
at Zirwee collected for me. 
Chitterkote, the Pysunnee Nuddy and Zirwee are places much 
venerated by Hindus, and abound in celts, which appear to have been 
collected together in the course of ages, by pilgrims coming across 
the hills, and by the inhabitants of the district, who found them in 
the spots where they had been abandoned by their original proprietors. 
