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One of these footprints is remarkably distinct (and is now in the 

 British Museum) . The pads of the foot and of the four toes, as well 

 as of the claws, are well developed. On comparing it with the right 

 fore-foot of a full-grown Chetah {Felis juhata, Schr.), in the pos- 

 session of Col. Tcherikoff, the Russian Commissioner, I found a per- 

 fect resemblance in size, namely A\ inches long, by 3^ inches wide. 

 In form, however, there is a slight difference ; the pads of the toes 

 in the cast are somewhat more elongated. Adhering to the hollows 

 are pieces of red clay. About an inch behind the first cast, is another, 

 probably of the hind-foot, but not very distinct. On the same slab 

 are traces of Fucoids. 



Other indistinct and irregular marks are sometimes seen on sand- 

 stones of this formation, but this is the only instance in which I 

 have observed any indications of the existence of animal life so high 

 up in the gypsum-series. 



The lithological structure of the rocks, and the foot-prints which 

 occur in them, appear to indicate some connection with the conglo- 

 merate-sandstones and bone-beds of Scinde and the Himalaya. They 

 all occupy a similar position with regard to the underlying Nummu- 

 litic rocks, and show that they have been deposited under similar 

 conditions, — namely, on the shore of a shallow estuary, frequented 

 by land and fluviatile animals. 



If it be possible to found an argument from the presence of but 

 one fossil, we might remark that a similar generic distribution of 

 animals seems to have prevailed formerly as now in the respective 

 regions in which they occur. Thus, while on the flanks of the 

 Himalaya the large elephantine groups abounded and still abound, 

 and in Scinde the crocodile continues to appear as the characteristic 

 animal, — so in Liiristan, where those genera are entirely absent at 

 the present day, the feline tribes occupy their place, and (as far as 

 our evidence goes) are alone represented in the fossil state. 



The Bedderhii Stream affording more moisture than is usually to 

 be found in this inhospitable sandstone-region, the Liirs have sedu- 

 lously availed themselves of every level plot of ground for cultivation, 

 and many are the little oases seen among these otherwise desert 

 sandstone-ridges. 



On quitting the Bedderhii Stream for Kalah i Riza, the road 

 follows along the strike of the beds at that portion of the series 

 where the variegated marls are evidently preponderating over the 

 sandstones, and dipping as usual to the S.E. About ten miles to 

 the east of the road, a few thin and unimportant beds of gypsum 

 crop out from under the marls, and rest against the slope of the 

 limestone- chain of Tiikomani, being now and then covered by nearly 

 horizontal deposits of limestone-gravel and -breccia in a reddish- 

 yellow, pasty matrix. 



All the beds are conformable to each other ; but, while the sand- 

 stones west of the Bedderhii dip to the S.W. at an angle of 15° or 

 20°, the gypsum slopes off from the great range at an angle of 50° 

 or 60°. Kiihi Tiikomani is the first appearance of the Nummulitic 

 limestone N.E. of Dizfiil. 



