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incontestably the former extension of these relics, on a very large 
area, as Sibdilla is a town of Behar not far from the hills, but 200 
miles east of the Tons and the celt district proper about Karoi or 
Tirhowan. 
Most of the celts iirwill be- *stren: once possessed a very sharp edge, 
but there are some in the collection as Nos. 12, 13, 17 which though 
well-finished, never seem to have been ground down to a cutting edge 
and were probably used for other purposes than the sharp edged ones, 
though what precise use that was, can scarcely be guessed at. For 
comparison with these implements, I have laid on the table a few stone 
chips for which I am indebted to Major Haughton from the Andamans, 
the most finished of which might have been intended for arrow-head, 
but the majority of which chips seem merely intended to be used 
with the fingers in dividing fish or flesh. The round stone is also from 
the same quarter and seems to have been used for much the same 
purposes as the stone hammer from Powari. The four chips marked 
with a cross may have very well been intended for tipping arrows, to 
be used only against fish, but none of them would have been very 
effective against the Andaman pig or indeed any land animal. As, 
however, the Andamanese chiefly depend on fish, which they shoot with 
arrows for their food, Major Haughton is probably correct in regarding 
many of these chips as arrow-heads, though of a far slighter character 
than the arrow-heads which are usually found accompanying celts. 
The small agate fragment from Behar bears the appearance of being 
the remnant of a larger shear, and whether intended as an arrow-point 
or not, is, there is little doubt, an artificially formed piece of stone. 
A lump of chert from which chips have evidently been struck off was 
found by Major Haughton together with the chips in a native 
encampment and but from the place it was found in, would never have 
attracted notice, though on examination it is clearly enough seen to 
be the parent of chips, such as accompany it. The following table 
gives the weights and dimensions of the long and short axes and 
thickness of twelve selected celts, all from the Karoi district, varying 
from 41bs 9 oz. to 2 oz. 335 Grs.—the great bulk of the collection, 
however, ranging from f to lbs. 
