RECENT DEPOSITS OF NERBUDDA VALLEY. 



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ganesa, embedded in the reddish clay which orginally could not have 



measured much less than 12 feet. A portion 

 Elephant's tusk in clay. ... , , , , . , . , ,i i 



had been destroyed by projecting above the clay, 



and the whole was so friable that it broke in pieces in an attempt being 

 made to remove it. Several pieces however were got out sufficiently solid 

 to send down to Calcutta and are now in the Government Geological 

 Museum. From within a yard of the spot a similar tusk (without doubt 

 its fellow) had been removed to Saugor some years since which measur- 

 ed, I was told, 12 feet. The fragment in the museum measures along 

 outer curve 91 inches, greatest circumference 25 ; circumference where 

 broken off at smaller end 18. 



From the character of the deposit in which these tusks were found, 

 and their close proximity, it is reasonable to infer that they both 

 belonged to the same animal, whose carcass floated about in still 

 water till decomposition loosened the tusks in their sockets and al- 

 lowed them to subside simultaneously on the spot where they were 

 discovered. No pebbles or drifted materials are ever seen in this 

 clay, and the bones here and there found in it, are probably diffused in 

 the above manner. 



Near the villages of Timmeroun and Kelkach numerous bones of 



Timmeroun and Kel- Ruminants were procured, and near the former 

 kacn « village the lower jaw of an Elephant in its 4th 



year, the second molar being on the point of being shed and the 3rd 

 molar almost fully protruded. 



Near Kelkach some well rolled lumps of fossil wood were found 

 (which occurs very rarely in these beds and) which were probably 

 derived from the beds of some older group, either the Mahadeva, 

 or intertrappean, from the " subtrappean bone bed" in the former 

 of which fossil wood is abundant, though the fossil wood near Jub- 

 bulpur (not the intertrappean Physa bed, but a member of the older 

 Mahadeva group) is very different in appearance from that found 

 near Kelkach. 



