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Of the gravel bed at Tolur, which is singularly coarsej no section 

 was seen, and the implements collected were found on the surface. 

 All were rather water- worn. 



In a small patch of kankar-cemented gravel occurring on the banks 

 of the Yelhatti nullah, nine miles west by south 



of Jamkhandi, an upper molar tooth of a large 



Bovine tooth fossil. -r.. • ■• n imi -i- o ji • 



Bovine animal was found. The position ot tnis 



patch of gravel points to its having been formed by the nullah which 



now cuts through it. The tooth in question is thoroughly mineralised 



and partly encrusted with hard kankar. 



5. — The old and recent Marine Alluvia of the KonJcan. 

 These are represented in the first ease by a raised beach noticed 

 by Mr. C. J. Wilkinson at Malwan, in the second place by the marine 

 and estuarine accumulations of sand and mud, &c., forming at the 

 mouths of the various rivers. 



The raised beach is thus described by Mr. Wilkinson : — " North 

 of Malwan the laterite comes down nearer to the sea, and round the 

 edges of the creek, just north of the place, there are small brown sand- 

 hills under which occur recent beds of compacted sand and broken shells 

 dipping very slightly to the west. These are some distance above 

 high-water mark." 



As on the east coast of India, the position of the spits of sand 

 forming the bars of the several rivers draining the Konkan depends upon 

 the direction of the most powerful coast current, which here flows south- 

 ward, so that the spits all point southward or just opposite to their 

 direction on the east coast. 



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