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The section seen in the banks of the nullah south of the little 

 villag-e is — 



d. Regur or cotton-soil passing down into • 



c. Black clay with head of Rhinoceros 



fi.^Clayey grit, two beds with clayey parting, and numerous specimens of Uni 



and Corhicula in the gritty hands 

 a. Eeddish-hrown black clay with bovine remains. 



A number of bones and fragments of bones were found loose in the bed 

 of the nullah, and others were obtained in 1874 by excavating in adjacent 

 fields : these have not been examined and determined, but many are 

 bovine and a few belong to a second and rather smaller individual of 

 BJiinoceros Beccanensis, Several forms of JJnio occur, they and the 

 Corhicula all belong to species now living in the Krishna and its tribu- 

 taries. The bones are found in a friable condition ; they are somewhat 

 distorted by pressure in a few cases, and much comminuted by the action 

 of numerous shrinkage cracks in the clay. Some of the bones are much 

 encrusted by calcareous deposits. 



The nasal bones of Bhinoceros Deccanensis were not found, hence 

 it is uncertain whether the animal had a horn or not, but from the 

 absence, or very small (rudimentary) size of the incisors, the animal 

 had probably a large horn. The individual was just adult. 



The bovine animal was in the shape of its molars nearly allied to 

 Bibos gmirus, which still inhabits the slopes of the Sahyadri mountains 

 where they are thickly wooded. 



4. — Fluviatile Deposits. 



The alluvia of the several rivers agree very closely in character 



and consist almost entirely of alluvial regur 

 'General characters. 



or black-soil, with some intercalated beds of sand 



and gravel, which latter are, not unfrequently, cemented into coarse 



conglomerate by the deposition of calcareous matter in the form of 



kunkur, 



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