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The natives (although I cannot induce them to assign any reason on 
the subject) are or were evidently as quick in discovering any celt or 
even portion of a celt as the most practised antiquarian. 
Nos. 2 and 5 illustrate this fact, and many of the broken portions of 
celts which I have met with, retain but little trace of their original 
pattern. 
1 have as yet seen no celts in this district made from stone of other 
descriptions than the specimens I now send to you. 
1 am pretty well acquainted with the line of hills from Chunar to 
Kohrar IChas on the Tonse, but I have never seen a celt in that 
locality. 
I have met with no celts save within the area which 1 have described 
in an earlier paragraph. 
From Meyhere to Jubbulpore for a few miles east and west of the 
Deccan road I know the country very well ; it has yielded me no celts 
up to date. 
The celt question has occupied my attentoin from time to time 
during the past ten years, but in January, 1860, I was not aware of 
the interesting discoveries of celts in the more recent geological 
formations upon the continent of Europe. 
The result of much observation of localities producing celts, and of 
information collected from various sources, has impressed me with the 
opinion that the celt-using race were partial to dwelling near the sea 
shore, in the vicinity of bluff cliffs and head-lands. In all probability 
they derived a considerable portion of their food from the shell-fish 
and other easily-captured inhabitants of the rocks and pools. 
This conviction is strengthened by the vast collections of limpet- 
shells bearing strong traces of fire, which I have frequently found at 
a depth of two or three feet below the present surface of the ground 
in the immediate vicinity of stone implements when carrying out 
excavations for engineering works. 
It has always struck me very forcibly when examining the country 
under notice in this memo., that at the period when the celt-users 
dwelt in this part of India, the Gangetic plain was submerged, and the 
coast line was represented by the bold cliffs of the Vindhyan and 
Kymorc ranges. Should such have been the case, the vicinity of 
Kinvee must have presented much very beautiful natural scenery 
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