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procured Physa in 1833, Dhunra in the same vicinity, Narayanpur 

 near Soliajpur, Mandla, and Phulsagar, on the north bank of the Nar- 

 badda, and as far up the river as Mohtura and Domadadar, in the 

 Ramgac? Raja's country, — at all of which localities the same in- 

 defatigable and successful geologist found shells, including an abun- 

 dance of Physa, several specimens of Unio, and, if I may judge from 

 .the figures, oi Limnceus and Valvata. None of them, however, are 

 named * . North of the Narbadda, near Mandla, univalve and bivalve 

 shells abound in the marls and earthy limestone, as we learn from 

 Capt. Dangerfield, who styles them " Buccinum and a species of 

 Mussel" (Physa and Unio1)\. Leaving the Narbadda, and coming 

 to the Tapti, near its source, we find that Voysey, as has been men- 

 tioned by Malcolmson, in his memoir on this deposit, discovered 

 shells, which he named " Conus and Voluta " (two forms of Physa ?), 

 at Jirpa and Jillan, which lie apparently on the north of the Gawilgac? 

 range;};. On the S. of the same chain of hills near Elichpur, are 

 Muktagiri and Bairam, whence Dr. Bradley procured the excellent 

 specimens of Physa and Unio, which I had the pleasure of sending 

 to the Geological Society. Returning to Jirpa, we enter the district 

 of Betiil, about 100 rhiles N.W. of Nagpur, which was explored by 

 Capt. Ousley, who found shells at Chichundra and Murkha on the 

 E. of the town, at Bharkawa<^a, Bheiawa^a and Jawara on the S., 

 and at Badori, Kolgau, Gaikham and Bakur, on the S.W. Passing 

 over the localities within the State of Nagpur, to which suflScient 

 reference has been made in the previous part of this paper, we arrive 

 at the district north of Hyderabad, where, I am informed by a friend, 

 Physce have been extracted from one of the banks of the Godaveri at 

 Nandur, and where also fossils were discovered near Hatniir and 

 Maniir by Malcolmson, and at Medkonda, Shiwalingapa, and Deglur 

 by Voysey, who as early as 1819, when organic remains were almost 

 unknown in India, met at these localities with shells, including, as he 

 thought, *' Turbo, Cyclostoma, Buccinum, Helix, and Turritella," 

 some of which may be identified as Physa and Valvata. Not far 

 from Deglur, on the S. side of the Manjara, Capt. Newbold obtained 

 specimens oi Physa at Munapilli§, and again from between Kulkonda 

 and Digai, on the banks of the Bhima, he was presented with speci- 

 mens of Paludina deccanensis by Capt. Windham. These are all 

 the fossiliferous localities for our tertiary formation with which I 

 have become acquainted, with the exception of Bombay, and Pad- 

 pangali near Rajamundry, afterwards to be more particularly noticed. 

 But besides these, there are many places where the same deposit 

 occurs destitute of organic remains. For example, my friend Mr. 

 Hunter and myself, on a mission tour, traced it almost without in- 

 terruption from the vicinity of Nagpur, where the fossils cease, west- 

 ward to Elichpur, a distance of 100 miles and upwards ; and, while 

 the material of the rock was sometimes a whitish lime, and at others 



* Bengal As. Soc. Journ. vol. viii p. 708. 

 t Malcolnison's Central India, vol. ii. p. 329. 

 X Trans. Geol. Soc. 2n(l ser, vol. v. pp. 570-1. 

 § Bengal As. Soc. Journ. vol. xiii. p. 987. 



