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variety of fossil species,—long-winged Devonian Spiriferze, Pro- 
ducti, Orthites, Terebratulz, but no Trilobites. Next above the 
ic st 
With strata of reddish sandstone, intermixed with occasional 
fossils. Still higher up there are large masses of whitish and 
yellow nummulite limestone, containing various fossils. The 
fossils imbedded in the tertiary sandstone. But neither va- 
nety, so far as my observation has extended, is ever likely to 
Ssess any practical value, occurring as they each do, in such 
thin beds, ‘ot ee 
“Many of the fossils that I found here, are such exact coun- 
terparts of those that I had brought from the Himalayas and 
hibet, that I must conclude that the sedimentary stratified 
Tocks of all these regions were formed under the same ocean. 
“From Dehra Ismail Chan I went to the Mandi district. I 
found the salt here similar in formation and date to that of the 
z. 
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ete, I am on my way to Kulu, whence I shall cross the lofty 
oa. 
, Ravi in the Tschamba District.’ ; 
fiver Amur,—Russian travelers have lately examined the re- 
tions, translated from the Russian, form the basis of a valuable 
droge, Petermann’s Mittheil., 1857, p. 296, in which the hy- 
by ethnography, geology, zoology and botany 0 
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