Chap, 2,] w. blanfoiiDj western india. 5 



and in the list given by Mr. Oldliam as an appendix to that Memoir at 

 p. 337, by far the greater number of the publications are named in which 

 the geology of the western portion of the Nerbudda country is described. 

 A supplementary Hst, consisting chiefly of papers on Malwa and Eastern 

 Guzeratj is herewith appended. The majority of the papers referred to are 

 also contained in that most useful reprint of the ' Geological papers on 

 Western India/ pubHshed by the Government of Bombay in 1857, mider 

 the able superintendence of Dr. Carter, a compilation which entitled Lord 

 Elphinstone, the Governor of Bombay, and Dr. Carter to the gratitude 

 of all interested in the progress of geology in India («). 



As might be supposed some portions of these extensive regions have 



received far more notice than others. The neigh- 

 Different portions of _ 

 area have received differ- bourhood of the large stations of Mhow and In- 

 ent amounts of notice. 



dore, and of the great road leading through them 



from Bombay and the Deccan to Gwalior, Agra, and the other cities of 

 the North- Western Provinces, and also the rich and populous districts of 

 Surat and Broach, have received far more attention than the wild jungle- 

 clad tracts which intervene. The geological formations seen on the high 

 road from Malwa to Guzerat have more than once been described, while 

 the roadless tracts of the Satpoora mountains and of the Dhar forest have 

 remaiaed unknown. 



The whole area may thus be divided into three portions, each of 



which has been noticed by separate observers. 

 Sub-division of area. 



These are — 1st, the Nerbudda valley and its neigh- 

 bourhood from Hoshungabad to Baroda ; 2nd, the countries lying south 

 of the Nerbudda to the eastward, including Baitool and Berar ; and 3rd, 

 Eastern Guzerat, Broach, Sm-at, and their immediate neighbom-hood. 



(a). It is difficult to over-estimate the ohligations of the officers of the Geological Survey 

 engaged in Western India to the Government which authorized and the Editor who superin- 

 tended this most useftd and admirable reprint. The advantage of having all the most im- 

 portant publications on the geology of a large country in a portable form, so that they can 

 be referred to in the field, is very great indeed. 



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