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- — numerous land-locked bays, surrounded by bold cliffs, with pic- 
turesque rocky islets at short distances from the mainland in all 
directions — the very spot of all others where I should have expected 
to find traces of the celt-making people — and there the celts now 
are, not only collected in large numbers at the more sacred spots, but 
scattered in twos and threes at every village along the hill foot. 
The vicinity of Neehee and of Karehun a little to the west of 
Neehee, near the mouth of the Hindul valley, presents the same 
natural features, and is also rich in celts, which are not so numerous 
where the hills present a more uniform and regular outline. 
The celts do not appear to have been carried very far from . the 
spots where the Hindus found them ; perhaps not more than a day’s 
journey in any case. I think therefore that a careful examination for 
a breadth of ten miles on either side of each range of hills, through- 
out the country would enable us to plot on a map, the tracks and 
localities most frequented by the race whose history and period are 
now occupying some antiquarian notice. 
I have never heard of a celt in the Doab, and I found no traces of 
them when examining the course of the Sutlej river up to the snow 
in the latter part of 1857. 
At Manickpore I also found a manufactured stone of a peculiar 
shape, somewhat resembling a three or four pound grocer’s weight as 
used in England. This stone, made from the same material as the 
celts, is of a pattern which I have, on more than one occasion, noticed 
in archeological museums. It is generally indexed as a “ hammer.” 
The Manickpore Brahmins had converted it into a Mahadeo. 
It proves to be an instrument used by potters of the present day for 
patting the insides of the earthen vessels to smooth away any inequali- 
ties before baking the pottery. I noticed a village workman using a 
precisely similar article made of hard burnt clay two or three days 
after I had found what at the time I thought was a stone hammer. 
I shall send the stone and clay implements to England at an early 
date to clear up any doubt as to the purpose which the so-called 
hammer was made to serve. The ruder arts have undergone so little 
change in India during the last 1,500 years, that carefully chosen 
collections of Indian tradesmen’s tools would, if sent home, solve 
many mysteries. Every leather dresser in Cawnpore to this day uses 
a wooden celt exactly resembling the stone ones, save that the sides 
