cHaP. 1.] PREVIOUS OBSERVERS. 11 
In 1853, another “ Summary of the Geology of India"* was 
written by Dr. Carter of Bombay, in which, not- 
v dM withstanding that the evidence was scarcely more 
or better than what Newbold had already brought forward, a position in 
the geological scale of formations is given to the KARNUL and KADAPAH 
rocks. After trying to correlate all the different sandstones and lime- 
stones of India, Mr. Carter sees everything tending to the conclusion 
that most of the patches of limestone from Cutch to Cuddapah must be 
all of secondary age and possibly oolitic; while the Diamond Sand- 
stones are “partly formed from the materials of, and therefore 
subsequently to, the Oolitic series.” 
Later on, the lamented and unfortunate traveller Dr. A. von Schla- 
s N gintweit came to nearly the same conclusions, 
cse quee but he could hardly do otherwise in the rapid 
journey of eighteen days which he made between Bellary and Madras 
in the beginning of 1855. On the strength of such a hurried examin- 
ation, he published a short reportt on the geology of the districts. 
He considers the Cuddapah rocks as of secondary age; he falls into 
the usual error of seeing that the sandstones rest on slates and limestones ; 
and heis the first to discover some fossiliferous evidence, from which, 
of course, if it were clear, he naturally drew his conclusions as to the 
age of the beds containing them. This evidence was as follows :—%“ We 
found some nests of coral, some small bryozoa, and a very indistinct 
fragment of an Ammonite of the group of the Fimbriati (near 
سس___ ‏ ححت_ 
* Geological papers on Western India, edited by Henry G. Carter, Assistant Surgeon, 
H. C. S., Bombay, 1857, originally published in Jour, Bomb. Br. Roy. As. Soc., vol. V, 
p. 179, Jan. 1854. 
+ “Reports on the Proceedings of the Officers engaged in the Magnetic Survey of 
India."—By Adolphe, Hermann, and Robert Schlagintweit. 
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