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and transported them to the next open space. This is repeated in 

 gradually decreasing force nearly all the way to Huddersfield. 



It would be very desirable, while the effects of the Holmfirth flood 

 are still recent, that exact measurements should be made of the width 

 of the valley in its different parts, of the fall of the ground from the 

 reservoir to the junction of the Holme with the Colne, of the height 

 to which the water rose in various parts of the flood-stream, of the 

 time taken for the water to rise and run off, &c., so that the velocity 

 and power of the flood might be determined, and its results more ac- 

 curately recorded. For if such are the remarkable effects of a tem- 

 porary flood caused by a body of water comparatively so small, and 

 along a valley where its power could not be maintained, we may form 

 some conception of the enormous power which a more continuous 

 flood, with more sustained action, would possess. 



2. On the Salt- range of the Punjaub. By Dr. A. Fleming. 



[Communicated by Sir R. I. Murchison.] 



[The publication of this paper is deferred.] 



3. On the Geology of the Neighbourhood o/'Kotah, Deccan. 

 By Dr. Thomas L. Bell. 



[Communicated by Colonel Sykes, F.G.S.] 



The village of Kotah* is situated on a plain, on the left bank of the 

 Pranheetah River, twelve miles above its junction with the Godavery, 

 in latitude 18° 51' N., and longitude 80° 2' E. 



This is the locality selected by the late Dr. Walker for the experi- 

 ment of boring for coal, and from whence the specimens of fossil 

 Fish (Lepidotus Deccanensis) were obtained that were figured and 

 described in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. vii. p. 272, PL XV. The 

 " Station," where the bore was made, is situated on the bank of the 

 river, about half a mile to the N.N.W. of the village. 



To the westward the country (after crossing the river) is slightly 

 undul^iting, as far as the town of Chinnoor, distant twenty miles ; to 

 the east the plain is bounded by an abrupt ridge of hills, distant five 

 miles, which also, in consequence of their north-west and south-east 

 direction, bound the plain to the north ; on the south the country is 

 open and flat. 



On examining the surface, proceeding from Chinnoor towards 

 Kotah, which lies nearly due east, the road is observed to pass over 

 sandstone for four miles ; which, about half a mile from the river 

 Godavery, ceases, and changes to the *' black regar" or "cotton 



* The town of Kotah, on the Chumbul River, is situated about 450 geographical 

 miles to the N.N.W. 



