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On the Geology and Fossils of the Neighbourhood of 

 Nagpur, Central India. By the Rev. Messrs. S. Hislop 

 and R. Hunter. 



[Communicated by J. C. Moore, Esq., F.G.S.] 



[Read June 21, 1854*.] 



(Plate X.) 



\^Note. — A full Abstract of this Communication appeared in the Society's 

 Journal, No. 40, p. 470 et seq., in consequence of unavoidable delay in the pub- 

 lication of the Memoir itself.] 



PART I.t 



(Geology of the District.) 



Contents. 



Physical Geography of the District. 

 History of Geological Observations in 



the District, 

 General Geology of the District. 



Extent of the trap-rocks. 



granitic and schistose rocks. 



sandstone and shales. 



laterite, &c. 



Description of the strata. 



I. Superficial formations. 



1. Black soil or Regur. 



2. Red soil. 

 II. Brown clay. 



III. Laterite. 



IV. V. VI. Upper and Lovper Trap, 

 and the enclosed sedimentary 

 formation. 



Fossils, and age of the enclosed 



freshwater deposit. 

 Extent of the freshwater de- 

 posit. 

 Minerals of the Trap. 

 Age of the Trap, and the mode 

 of its eruption. 

 VII. Sandstone formation, and its 

 four divisions, with their fossils. 

 Thickness of the strata. 

 Character of the formation, 

 and its age. 

 VIII. Plutonic and metamorphic 

 rocks. 



Metals of these rocks. 

 Age of the crystalline rocks. 

 Conclusion. 



Physical Geography of the District. — The country to which the 

 following paper refers is the western part of the recently acquired 

 kingdom of Nagpur J, lying, with the southern corner of the Sagar 



* For the other Papers read at this Evening Meeting, see Quart. Journ. Geol. 

 Soc. vol. X. p. 454 &c. 



t Part II., containing the Palseontological Portions of this Communication, 

 with Illustrations, will appear in a subsequent No. of the Journal. 



X With regard to the spelling and pronunciation of Hindu names of places, 

 the authors have furnished the following remarks in one of their late letters to 

 the Assistant- Secretary : — 



" Orthography in India is a very unsettled branch of learning. Those who first 

 stereotyped in English characters the Hindu names of places were most unsuited 

 for the work, and hence most unscientific is the system of spelling practised by 

 the generality of our countrymen. We follow the Jonesian system, as it is 

 adopted by such societies as the Royal Asiatic. By that every Hindu letter has 

 an English representative, though that representative has more a continental than 

 an English sound attached to it. The vowels are a, d, — i, i, — u, u, — e, ei, — o, ou. 

 They are in pairs, short and long ; a unaccented having the sound of u in but, 

 a accented the sound of a in have, u the sound of itself in full, its long being just 

 the same sound more dwelt on, i the sound of English e made long or short as it 

 has accent or no accent. There is only one consonant that may occasion diffi- 

 culty, that is a. d written in italics. When so written or printed it is intended to 

 have a sound somewhat like r. Thus we write Weiragac?, whereas it is com- 

 monly written Wyraghur. The gh for g is just a gross mistake, which destroys 

 the etymology of the language to a person who does not know the original Hindu 

 name. Silewarfa, as written by us, is usually represented Sillewarra." 



