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worked flint or agate implements. Some uncertainty existed at first, 

 as I had but one specimen. Its transmission to Calcutta for identifi- 

 cation, and other things occurring during my subsequent wanderings, 

 prevented my writing imtil reminded by an allusion to the circum- 

 stance in your Magazine for February^ (p. 93). 



After a long march in November last across the steppes of the Deccan 

 I accompanied my colleague, W. T. Blanford, Esq., to the Godavery, 

 m the vicinity of P-^i:on (or Paitan), to search for further evidence 

 regarding bones of Elephas found there several years ago by (then) 

 Major Twemlow. In this we were not very fortunate ; but searching 

 the river bed, and its high alluvial banks, resulted in the discovery 

 of several portions of smaller fossil bones and teeth, both of Car- 

 nivores and Ruminants, thus pro^sdng the similarity between the 

 Godavery alluAT.um and that of the Nerbudda and Taptee rivers. 



While searching in the right bank of the river, just below the 

 houses of Moongie village, where the alluvial cliff has a height of 

 fifty feet or so, I came upon a stratum of imcompacted subcalcareous 

 conglomerate, gravelly, and containmg numerous shells of similar 

 species to those now inhabiting the river, in other respects quite 

 similar to the recent conglomerate so frequent in the alluvium of 

 Indian rivers. Imbedded in this I found the specimen referred to, 

 one of the fragments or flakes struck from a flint or agate implement 

 or core, a few inches in length, slightly curved, and somewhat of a 

 knife-like form. I searched in its neighbourhood in vain for other 

 specimens, and kept a sharp look out for more on my way up the 

 river, but could find nothing at all satisfactory amongst the numer- 

 ous agates and fine blood-stones which crowd the ordinary trappean 

 debris of the river. 



The place in which the flake was found is about twenty feet above 

 the base of the alluvial cliff", and it is, perhaps, likely that an exten- 

 sive search, aided by excavation, might bring to light others, or the 

 implements themselves. 



The portion of the river exammed did not exceed in length from 

 fifteen to twenty miles, so that an ample field yet remains to be 

 explored. Truly yotu's, S. B. Wynne, 



ixeological Survey of India. 



Camp Jungles of Centhal India, 

 March 20, 1866. 



DVCISCIBLXjJ^lvrEOTJS. 



New Minerals. — In the " Comptes Eendus " for March 19th, M. 

 Pisani describes a Cornish mineral to which he gives the name 

 Chenevixite. It is an arseniate of copjoer and iron, the iron being in 

 the state of ferric oxide. M. Pisani gives it hardness as 4'5, and its 

 density as 3*93. The colour is a blackish green, and the fracture 

 conchoidal. 



1 Mr. WyDne's name, we regret to observe, was mis-printed as Bynne in the 

 February number at page 94. — Edit. 



