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  rious 
  work, 
  was, 
  from 
  being 
  constructed 
  on 
  very 
  insufficient 
  data, 
  very- 
  

   faulty 
  in 
  many 
  parts 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  illustration 
  it 
  gave 
  of 
  the 
  country 
  around 
  

   Madras 
  was 
  quite 
  erroneous. 
  

  

  In 
  1856 
  the 
  late 
  Mr. 
  Adolf 
  Schlagintweit 
  visited 
  Sripermatoor 
  and 
  

  

  discovered 
  remains 
  of 
  Palaeozamice 
  in 
  the 
  shales 
  

   Mr, 
  A. 
  Schlagintweit. 
  

  

  which 
  there 
  occur. 
  He 
  published 
  a 
  short 
  notice 
  

  

  in 
  the 
  Journal 
  of 
  the 
  Bengal 
  Asiatic 
  Society 
  for 
  1857* 
  of 
  the 
  results 
  of 
  

   his 
  trip 
  through 
  Southern 
  India,, 
  and 
  in 
  it 
  advanced 
  the 
  idea 
  that 
  the 
  

   Sripermatoor 
  shales 
  and 
  gritty 
  sandstones 
  and 
  the 
  Nagpiir 
  plant- 
  

   bearing 
  beds 
  were 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  geological 
  age. 
  He 
  also 
  regarded 
  the 
  

   post 
  cretaceous 
  gritty 
  sandstones 
  of 
  Tiruvakkarei 
  (Trivicary) 
  as 
  of 
  the 
  

   same 
  age. 
  Both 
  these 
  conclusions 
  were 
  singularly 
  unhappy, 
  because 
  

   based 
  on 
  totally 
  insufficient 
  data. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Alexander 
  Hunter, 
  the 
  Superintendent 
  of 
  the 
  School 
  of 
  Arts 
  

  

  in 
  Madras, 
  has 
  published 
  various 
  lists 
  of 
  minerals 
  

   Dr. 
  A. 
  Hunter. 
  

  

  collected 
  by 
  him 
  in 
  the 
  neighbourhood 
  of 
  Chingle- 
  

  

  put 
  and 
  other 
  places 
  in 
  the 
  Madras 
  area, 
  also 
  one 
  or 
  two 
  sketches 
  of 
  the 
  

   country 
  about 
  Madras 
  itself. 
  These 
  are 
  drawn 
  up 
  so 
  vaguely, 
  as 
  

   regards 
  the 
  indication 
  of 
  localities 
  and 
  distinction 
  of 
  the 
  several 
  geolo- 
  

   gical 
  formations 
  met 
  with, 
  that 
  they 
  are 
  of 
  no 
  scientific 
  value. 
  I 
  have 
  

   been 
  unable 
  to 
  procure 
  a 
  detailed 
  account 
  of 
  some 
  borings 
  in 
  search 
  of 
  

   coal 
  made 
  under 
  Dr. 
  Hunter's 
  superintendence 
  in 
  the 
  neighbourhood 
  

   of 
  Sripermatoor.f 
  

  

  In 
  a 
  short 
  paper 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  Madras 
  Journal 
  of 
  Science 
  and 
  

  

  Literature 
  (Vol. 
  IV, 
  New 
  Series, 
  p. 
  47), 
  Mr. 
  Henry 
  

   Mr. 
  H. 
  F. 
  Blanford. 
  _ 
  , 
  ' 
  . 
  - 
  ■ 
  

  

  F. 
  Blanford, 
  then 
  of 
  the 
  Geological 
  Survey 
  of 
  

  

  India, 
  confirmed 
  Mr. 
  Schlagintweit's 
  discovery 
  of 
  Palaozamia 
  remains 
  

  

  * 
  Journal 
  Asiatic 
  Society, 
  Bengal, 
  Vol. 
  XXVI, 
  p. 
  104. 
  

  

  t 
  Dr. 
  Hunter's 
  lists 
  of 
  minerals 
  will 
  be 
  found 
  in 
  a 
  small 
  volume 
  of 
  Eeports 
  on 
  

   Greenough's 
  Geological 
  Map 
  of 
  India, 
  (published 
  by 
  the 
  Madras 
  Government,) 
  and 
  in 
  

   various 
  Jury 
  Eeports 
  on 
  the 
  several 
  industrial 
  exhibitions 
  held 
  in 
  Madras. 
  The 
  sketches 
  

   of 
  the 
  neighbourhood 
  of 
  Madras 
  appeared 
  in 
  a 
  Magazine 
  published 
  some 
  years 
  ago 
  in 
  

   connection 
  with 
  the 
  Madras 
  School 
  of 
  Arts. 
  

  

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