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Hosungabad, which circumstance accounts for the rarity of fossil bones 

 to the westward, as it is in these gravel beds they most plentifully 

 occur. 



I shall now briefly enumerate the spots at which bones are most 

 frequently met with ; though wherever these gravels are exposed, bones 

 to a greater or less extent may be confidently looked for. 



Commencing at the east, the first spot where bones occur at all 



plentifully is near the village of Darticachar, a few 

 Bone localities. # 



miles above Jhansi Ghat, where, besides a number 



of indeterminable bones, sundry teeth and bones, mostly in fragments, 

 were met with, of Elephas, Bos, Equus and Trionyx: Chelonian remains 

 occurring very sparingly throughout the group. Below this as far as 

 the junction of the Hiran Nuddi with the Nerbudda, very few fossils were 

 noticed, probably from the ground having been too often and well 

 explored by former collectors. 



Along the course of the Hiran Nuddi these ossiferous beds are rarely- 

 seen, the banks usually consisting of the upper 

 Kymori. ii-t.ii. 



alluvium. Below the village of Kymori, however, 



a small patch of sands and conglomerate occurs, from which I obtained 

 several bones of Ruminants and the perfect lower jaw of a large 

 Hippopotamus (Tetraprotodon ?) but which was unfortunately in too fri- 

 able a state to remove entire. 



Below the Hiran Nuddi fossils are not numerous till near Sao- 

 wan Ghat at the junction of the Baru-Rewa Nuddi with the Ner- 

 budda. 



Between this point and Birman Ghat fossils occur not unfrequently, 

 but the locality has been too well known and explored to yield many 

 novel remains of interest for the present. 



Above the village of Patera I obtained a portion of the molar of a 



Porcupine and a lower jaw of some large animal, 

 Pat* ra. 



differing from an ordinary Ruminant jaw, and 



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