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is occupied by mineralogical details, while the really important discovery 

 of the ' petrified shells^ receives less notice. They were found on the 

 south side of the Taptee in the ascent to the table land near Jillan, The 

 rock in which they occurred is far more carefully described than the shells 

 themselves, which are referred to the genera Conus and Vohita, incorrectly 

 however, the species being Physa Prinsepii and other freshwater forms. 



It is curious that if Voysey crossed the Taptee on the road from 

 Baitool and EUichpoor, as appears probable, he omitted to note the 

 occurrence of metamorphic rocks and sandstone in the bed of the river. 



In the same volume of the Asiatic Researches {a) is a paper by Cap- 

 tain F. Jenkins, entitled *^ An account of some 

 Jenkins, 1834 



minerals collected at Nagpoor and its vicinity with 

 remarks on the Geology, &c., of that part of the country .^^ He refers 

 chiefly to the rocks occurring in the immediate neighbourhood of Nag- 

 poor, but some of the specimens described came from Chindwara, and, 

 in connection with them, reference is made to the extension of granitic 

 rocks to Baitool, and of the trap beyond Baitool in the Asseergurh and 

 Gawilgurh hills. 



The next paper on this region is " A summary description of the 



country between Hoshungabad on the Nerbudda 

 Finnis, 1834. 



and Nagpoor" by Lieutenant John Finnis, pub- 

 lished in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal {b) . This paper 

 has already been referred to by Mr. J. G. Medlicott. It is little more 

 than a list of specimens of rocks collected on the road, with the details 

 of the localities whence they were derived, but so far as its scope admits, 

 it gives a good account of the section of country traversed. 



Dr. W. H. Bradley published in the Transactions of the Bombay 



Geographical Society (c) " Some account of the to- 

 Bradley, 1845. 



pography and climate of Chiculdah situated on 



the table land of the Gawil range.''^ In this a very good description of 

 {a). Vol. XVIII, p. 1, p. 195. (6). Vol- III, p. 71- (c). Vol- VII, p, 167^ 



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