114 NERBUDDA DISTRICT. 



Central-Indian, fossils, among them the remains of Horse, Elephant, 

 and Buffalo, and in 1839 Mr. Frazer and Dr. Spilsbury(a) gave a list of 

 fossil localities known to them up to that time, along with drawings by 

 Captain Reynolds of several fossil shells. 



The same gentleman subsequently furnished drawings of some fossil 

 bones from Hosungabad and Heerapur: these were Buffalo, Elephant, 

 and Hippopotamus. Again in 1841 Dr. Spilsbury (b) sums up there- 

 suits of his labours, gives some more drawings, and a list of animals 

 whose remains he had disinterred, which includes Hog, Hippopotamus, 

 Elepliant, Ox, Deer, and Turtle, and perhaps Palceotherium* Again 

 in 1844(a) the same indefatigable explorer published drawings of 

 some bones from wild and domestic animals, for comparison with 

 the fossils. 



In these papers very few stratigraphical conditions w r ere investi- 

 gated. 



In 1834, in a query addressed by Mr. Prinsep to the Geologists 

 of Central India, he asks if the bone-bearing gravel of the Birman Ghat 

 is ever overlaid by the black cotton-soil, and if its formation, and the 

 fossilization of its organic remains, might not be due to the proximity 

 of the hills, the lime-charged water of springs rising among which may 

 have indurated an ossiferous alluvium. The fact is that the bone- 

 bearing beds are always overlaid by, and never overlie the Regnr, 

 and jare part of a deposit widely spread over the valley, the great 

 area which they occupy showing that they cannot be referred to 

 local causes such as calcareous springs. It was also asserted(^) that 

 the ossiferous limestone of Jubbulpur rests conformably on the sandstone 

 beneath. Subsequent observations prove this not to be the case. 



(«) Jour. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. VII T, p. 950.— (i) Ibid. Vol X, p. 626. 

 * The fossil here called Pakeotheriuni has since been shown to be Hippopotamus (Hexa- 

 protodon.^) 



(a) Jour. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. XIU, p. 765.— (6) Ibid. Vol. II, p. 583, 



