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are flatter, but the peculiarly bevelled cutting edge is strikingly 
similar to the ancient celt. 
I have never found a trace of any flint celts, but in 1856, near 
Nyagurhee, 28 miles east of Chachye, I found a very perfect chert 
arrow-head of the same shape and size as those which the owners of 
basaltic celts manufactured from such chert or flint celts as they could 
procure by barter or force from people who dwelt in a chert country. 
A chert celt was almost always chipped into arrow-heads ; 1 was 
once so fortunate as to unturf a level spot of ground in the Island of 
Alderney, where an extensive arrow-head manufactory had been carried 
on ; and the whole process was explained to me as clearly as if I had 
walked into the workman’s shed and watched his operations. 
Should you think the celt enquiry worth pursuing, or a further 
collection made, I shall be happy to hear from you, and to carry out 
any suggestions you may offer. 
With every apology for troubling you with this long story. 
I remain, &o. 
(Sd.) H. P. LeMesuriee, 
Chief Engineer , Jubbulpore Line, E. I. E. 
In a letter subsequently received from Manickpore, Mr. LeMesu- 
rier says : — 
I have just heard that many celts have been found at NVode 
recently. I have not seen them. I hear also that there arc many at 
Kotee, 12 miles, N. E. of Nagode.” 
“ Captain Hodgson has this morning found five under one tree at 
this place.” 
The Council submitted a report announcing that the following Sub- 
committees had been appointed for the current year: 
, Finance. 
Colonel Baird Smith. 
Babii Rajendralal Mitra. 
Philology. 
F. E. Hall, Esq. 
Bcv. J. Long. 
Dr. E. Roer. 
Capt. W. N. Lees. 
Babii Rajendralal Mitra, 
