98 INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 



Mr. H. Medlicott returned to resume his duties at Roorki. During 

 the following season f 1855-56,) illness, which to our great regret termi- 

 nated fatally, deprived the Survey of the services of Mr. Kennedy, and 

 Mr. Joseph Medlicott was then, for a short time, alone. I proceeded 

 there myself, at the close of the year 1855, and took a general review of 

 the whole district. The results of this vftit, combining my own and my 

 colleague's observations, were briefly published in May 1856. (aj I also 

 reported to Government on the coal and iron districts of part of the 

 valley. At the close of the working season, I returned to Calcutta ; Mr. 

 Medlicott continued working out in detail the structure of the country. 

 During that season he succeeded, in mapping topographically, as well as 

 geologically, the country extending from Lokurtullye on the west, to the 

 parallel of Futtehpur on the east, and taking up his quarters during the 

 monsoon at Jubbulpore, he examined, with some care, the immediate 

 vicinity of that station. Again taking the field early in the season of 

 1856-57, he completed the area now mapped eastwards to the neighbour- 

 hood of Sohagpur. During that season, Mr. Theobald was sent to his 

 assistance, and was requested to devote his attention more especially to 

 the recent deposits of the valley, from which he obtained an admirable 

 collection of Fossils, now in the Geological Museum, Calcutta. 



At the close of that working season (Spring of 1857), Mr. Medlicott 

 proceeded to Calcutta, and thence accompanied me to Europe, on duty 

 connected with the Geological Survey and Museum. Mr. Theobald, 

 who had gone to the station of Mhow, for the monsoon, escaped from the 

 hands of the mutineers with considerable risk, and reached Bombay in 

 safety, with only the loss of some of his property. 



It had been my intention to have resumed the examination of these 

 districts at once, during the next working season, (1857-58) but the 

 disturbed and unsafe state of the country at that time, rendered this 

 quite impracticable. In consequence of this there are, as will be seen, 

 man} 7 points of great interest still unsettled, which nothing but the care- 

 ful examination of the extension of the same rocks to the eastward, along 

 the valley of the Soane river, and into the Rewah territory, can solve. 

 And it would certainly have been more satisfactory to all concerned in 



(a) Journal Asiatic Society Bengal, Vol. XXV, page 249. 



