86 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XV, 
accumulated in these conglomerates. Nor can an ice sheet be 
called into action, for we know that, even supposing that any 
an ice sheet could not have extended so far south as India. 
Finally the pebbles in the Siwalik boulder conglomerates bear 
no striations, facets or other characteristic traces of a glacial 
ri 
! Hooker, Himalayan Journals, IT, p. 7. Macmahon, Rec. Geol. Surv., 
Ind., XIV, p. 310, XV, p. 49. win Austen, J.A.S.B., XLIV, pt. 2, 
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