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rivers were again to form deposits, they would be much of the same kind 



as those found. But in order to become again depositing streams a 



change in the rate of fall would be necessary, cer- 



Alluviutn probably de- 

 posited when fall of tainly for the deposition of the clay flats. It is 

 streams was less. 



probable, therefore, that the rate of fall was less at 



the time when the alluvial plains of the Nerbudda and Taptee were depo- 

 sited. Whether the subsequent change has been due to greater elevation 

 of land to the eastward, or of depression to the westward, or simply to 

 the river having cut a deeper channel to the west through the rocky 

 country traversed after leaving the various plains, is more difficult to say. 

 The saltness of part of the Berar plain seems in favour of the 

 presence of the sea at the period of its formation. But the want, so far 

 as is known, of marine remains is opposed to the idea of these plains 

 bavins' been delta accumulations on a sea-coast. 



'Note on the Godavery Gravels. 



In Dr. Falconer's paper above alluded to, mention {a) is made of the occurrence of 

 JEIeplias Namadicus in richly fossiliferous fluviatile deposits of southern India. In 1862, I 

 heard from Dr. Falconer of a great deposit of fossil bones in the Qodavery valley, which is 

 landoubtedly the same as that alluded to. Dr. Falconer promised to search for a note he 

 had of the precise locality, but I omitted to enquire again about it at the time, and I 

 feared that, with his untimely death, all record of the spot had been lost. Fortunately 

 Sir Bartle Frere was also acquainted with the circumstances of the discoveiy (no account 

 of which appears ever to have been published) and procured from the original discoverer. 

 General Twemlow, an account of the facts, which he communicated to me. The spot from 

 M'hich the skull examined by Dr. Falconer was obtained was close to Pyton, a town on the 

 Upper Godavery, on one of the roads leading from Ahmednuggur to Jalna. General 

 Twemlow also met with extensive deposits of Mammalian bones in the valley of the Pem 

 (or Pyne) Gunga near the cantonment of Hingolee, and he is of opinion that the ossiferous 

 deposits are largely scattered over the valleys of the Godavery and Pem Gunga. Mr. Fedden 

 has, during the past year, searched a portion of the Pem Gunga valley near Hingolee, and 

 has found fossil bones, chiefly bovine, in several places, though not in that abundance 

 which the earher accounts had led to be anticipated. The numbers mentioned by General 

 Twemlow must have been an accidental accumulation. Mr. Fedden after much search and 

 enquiry succeeded in discovering a spot near Hingolee Avhere bones were said to have for- 

 merly occm-red in large numbers, but he only met with a few fragments. It is to be hoped 

 that observers residing in the country vdU carry on the search. 



(a). Quart. Jour., Geol. Soc, London, Vol. XXI, p. 381. 

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