14 W. BLANFOUD, WESTERN INDIA. [PaRT I. 



of Arabia, in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London (a) . 

 In this the exact position of the Bagh beds in the cretaceous series is shown 

 to be nearly that of the upper greensand of Europe, the fossils being, in 

 nearly every case, identical. Unfortunately Dr. Martin Duncan has repeated 

 nearly every mistake made by Dr. Carter in the paper already alluded to, 

 although Dr. Duncan was acquainted with Dr. Oldham's account, and refers 

 to it. Had he read carefully Captain Keatinge's diary quoted therein, he 

 must have seen that the fossil locality was 2 to 3 marches east of Bagh. 

 The geological arguments used to prove the identity of the Bagh beds 

 with those of E-as Sharwen in Arabia appear by no means sufficient ; the 

 palseontological are of course unquestionable, but the existence in both 

 cases of an unfossiliferous sandstone below the limestone, and the asserted 

 neighbourhood in both cases of a great south-west fault, will not 

 appear of much value to a geologist when he learns that the two local- 

 ities are 1,500 miles from each other. It is a pity that Dr. Martin 

 Duncan does not explain more clearly what he meant by the great south- 

 west fault. It is probable that he refers to a remark of M. Elie de 

 Beaumont's, in the ' Systemes des montagnes,' {h) that the direction of the 

 south-east coast of Arabia is parallel to a prolongation on a great circle of 

 the Vindhyan range on the Nerbudda. These defects in the geological 

 portion of the paper in no way detract from its palseontological importance. 



2. CounU'ies south of the Nerbudda valley, Baitool, 

 Berar, &c. 



Dr. Voysey is the earliest writer who described any portion of Berar. 



His paper '' On some petrified shells found in the 

 Voysey, 1833. 



Gawilgurh range of hills in April 1823"' is pub- 

 lished in the XVIIIth Volume of the Asiatic Researches, p. 187. In 

 this paper he gives a general account of the characters presented by the 

 Gawilgurh range, and describes the trap rocks of which it is composed. 

 As usual in papers of the period when Voysey wrote, much of the space 



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