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placed, Dr. Lush mentions the conglomerate as reappearing at 

 Gogah, close to the island, where masses of the rock containing shells 

 are dug out of the beach. This conglomerate appeared to him to con- 

 tain no fragments of trap, although the central ridge of Kattiwar, in- 

 cluding the hill of Politana, is composed of trap, which is also seen 

 at Bhownuggur.* Captain Fulljames states that he has found " a 

 " similar formation to that of Perim all along the coast from Gogah 

 " to Gossnath Point, where a firm sandstone is quarried, and of which 

 " the splendid Srawak temples of Politana are built." Captain 

 Fulljames, in a separate paper f, gives an account of the strata 

 passed through, in an experimental boring at the town of Gogah. 

 Of the 320 feet mentioned in the section, the uppermost 74 

 consist of sand and gravel 1 1 feet, stiff black clay 6 feet, sand and 

 clay 10 feet, soft sandstone alternating with thin seams of different 

 coloured clays, sand, and gravel 13 feet; and lowermost, a very 

 hard siliceous sandstone 9 feet thick. The inferior portion of the 

 section is composed of a great bed of dark clay, which has been 

 penetrated down to 246 feet, containing pyrites and broken shells. 

 The whole of this mass appears to be above the conglomerate, but 

 it is not shown whether the absence of the clay deposit at Perim 

 is owing to denudation, or to its upheaval before the clay on the 

 coast was deposited. Captain Fulljames states that he had dis- 

 covered fossil remains, like those of Perim Island, down the coasts 

 towards Gossnath, and in a similar formation. 



The first announcement of the Perim fossils is given in a com- 

 munication, dated 17th April, 1836, by Baron Carl von Hiigel J, in 

 which he mentions their having been discovered by Dr. Lush. 

 Among the remains which he enumerates are, bones of the Mastodon 

 latidens, the core of the horn of a species of Bos, the head of a 

 boar, and a rodent. Captain Fulljames concedes the priority of 

 discovery to Dr. Lush ; but immediately after followed up the 

 inquiry by more extended researches, commencing in April of the 

 same year ; and it is to him that we are indebted for the greater 

 part of the Perim fossils, which are to be found in the museum of 

 the Asiatic Societies of Calcutta and Bombay, and of the Geolo- 

 gical Society of London. Among those which he first met with, he 

 mentions " teeth of Mammoth, Mastodon, Palceotherium, Hippopo- 

 " tamus, Rhinoceros, and a number of other smaller animals ; 

 " elephant's tusks ; the head of some large saurian animal ; tor- 

 " toise ; one-half of a deer's foot ; and a shell in siliceous sand- 

 " stone." In the collection which Captain Fulljames sent to the 

 Asiatic Society of Calcutta, Mr. James Prinsep § enumerates 

 "many jaws of the Mastodon in fine preservation ; also teeth or 

 " jaws of the Hippopotamus, Elephant, Rhinoceros, a large animal 

 " assimilating thereto (Lophiodo?i?), Sus, Anthracotherium (?), 



* Dr. Malcolmson however (vide post p. 367. ) mentions the occurrence of 

 trap pebbles in these same tertiary beds. 



f Jour. Asiat. Soc. of Beng., vol. vi. p. 787. 

 \ lb., vol. v. p. 288. (May, 1836.) 

 § Loc. citat., vol. v. p. 290. 



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