Omeria and Deva 

 cachar. 



290 RECENT DEPOSITS OP NERBUDDA VALLEY. 



bearing some resemblance to that of a species of Palceotherium, though 

 from the hard character of the matrix and the fragility of the jaw little 

 could be made out regarding it. 



Just below Patera I found a small piece of fossil wood not two inches 

 in length in the reddish clay, the only piece of fossil wood throughout 

 these beds which did not appear to have been rolled, for though fossil 

 wood is not rare, all the pieces met with have more or less the appear- 

 ance of having been rolled and derived from some older group. (Maha- 

 deva?). 



Near the villages of Omeria and Deva-cachar situated respectively 

 on the Omer and Sher rivers, fossils would seem 

 to be numerous and I there procured numerous 

 remains of Elephas, Bos, Bubalus, Equus, Hippopotamus, {both Hex- 

 aprotodon and Teiraprotodoii) Rhinoceros (horn), Axis, Rusa (or re- 

 mains of cervidas of corresponding size), and Trionyx. — Below this 

 locality the remains of Hippopotamidas become very scarce, and they 

 seem to occur most numerously along the course of the Omer and 

 Slier rivers. 



Near the village of Omeria the following section occurs (ascend- 

 ing),— 



Reddish yellow clay (seen about), ... feet 20 



Loose gravel with boulders and teeth of Elephas, Tetrapro- 

 todon &c. also Corbicula cor, Unio corrugatus, marginalis, 



and cseruleus, 5 



•Sands and conglomerates loosely aggregated, with plates of 



Trionyx, Uniones, Corbicula and Paludina Bengalensis, ... 20 

 Upper alluvium, and regur, 30 



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About 12 miles below Birman Gh&t near the village of Bilthari I 

 obtained the nearly perfect tusk of a large Elephant, probably Elephas 



