242 FAUNA ANTIQUA SIVALENSIS. 



both purposes constantly supplied by fresb importations from 

 the north-west, are probably inferior in their class to those 

 more in the vicinity of their original climate.' 



We have been desirous of ascertaining the excess of height 

 to which the existing Camel arrives, to form a correct 

 opinion of the proportionate size of our fossil species ; and 

 for this purpose have consulted those authorities from whom 

 it was most likely to draw accurate information. The accounts 

 are sufficiently conflicting ; but that of Griffith, as an authority 

 on a point of natural history, may be considered as the best 

 and the most properly to be depended upon. Assuming, 

 therefore, that the comparative heights and proportions of 

 the Cam.elus Badrianus and Gamelus dromedarius, as shown 

 by Griffith, are the true ones, and that the latter is of a 

 smaller size than the Bactrian Camel, we are still borne out 

 in our conclusions with regard to the excess of dimensions of 

 the fossil or Gamelus Sivcdensis, and that this excess applies 

 generally towards all the species of Camel now existing. 



NoKTHEEN Doab: Jidy 15, 1836. 



APPENDIX TO MEMOIE ON CAMEL. 



I. — On the Fossil Remains of Camelid^ of the Sewaliks. By 

 Capt. p. T. Cautley.i 



' But the most interesting discovery was that of a camel, of which 

 the skull and jaw were found. It is to be observed that no decisive 

 proof of any of the CavieUda? — either Camel, Dromedary, or Lama — had 

 ever been hitherto tbund among fossil bones, although Cuvier had 

 proved certain teeth brought from Siberia to be undoubtedly of this 

 family, if they were really fossil, which he doubted. This discovery in 

 India was therefore extremely interesting, as supplying a wanting 

 genus. But for this very reasoia, it became the more necessary to 

 authenticate the position of this supposed camel's remains the more 

 clearly, especially as there were abundance of existing camels in the 

 country, which there could not be in Siberia. The Indian account is 

 somewhat deficient in this resj^ect, leaving us in doubt whether the 

 bones, admitted to bear a very close resemblance to the living species, 

 were found in a stratum, or loose and detached.' — Dissertations on 

 Subjects of Science connected iviih JSlatural Theology. By Henry Lord 

 Brougham, F.R.S., &c. Vol. ii. pp. 213-14. 1839. 



It is only within the last few months that the most interesting 

 volumes from which the above is an extract have reached this remote 

 part of India. Long as the extract is, however, its introduction may 

 be permitted, as aflfording us the opportunity of removing all doubts of 

 the existence of the camel among the Fossil Fauna of the Sewalika, by 



' Eeprinted from the ' Journ. As. Soc.,' vol. ix. p. 620. 1840. 



