S6 On the Poetry of Madagascar. [Makch, 



To him, indeed, thy love compare, 



Whose briefest, transient gaze, 

 With shame o'erwhelms, and deep despair, — 



Or drooping hearts can raise. 

 To this, indeed, thy love compare, 



I, of desire the end 

 And goal ; wherever you repair, 



Still towards me you tend. 

 And I, my love to thee will prove, 



In all good faith and truth, 

 A filial daughter's tender love 



To parents of her youth. 

 Enjoying life, while life shall last 



One house our common home ; 

 And when the mortal scene is past 



United in one tomb ! 



HI. — Extracts from Dr. Royle's Explanatory Address on the 

 Exhibition of his Collections in Natural History , at the Meeting of 

 the Asiatic Society ^ on the 7th March. 



Geology 0/ the Dehra Dun. 



The low range of hills skirting the Himalaya has a strip of jungle 

 along its south-west base, and the valley of Dehra on the north-east. 

 The highest peaks of this range are probably 3000 feet above the level 

 of the sea, and its outline presents a serrated appearance. The lower 

 strata are composed of a loose-grained sandstone, above which are 

 layers of clay, and gravel-rolled stones are found on the highest peaks ; 

 the clay gravel and sandstones are all regularly stratified with the 

 strata dipping to the N. N. E. at an angle of about 30°. From many 

 of the rolled stones being found with their flat sides and long ends 

 parallel to each other, though in different strata, and yet inclined at a 

 considerable angle towards the horizon, it is evident, that they must 

 originally have been deposited in horizontal strata, whence they have 

 been raised into their present inclined position by some subsequent 

 convulsion of nature. 



The whole of this range, like the greater part of the plains oflndia, 

 is impregnated with carbonate of lime ; for frequently where the water 

 percolates through the rock, and a favorable situation offers, stalactites 

 are formed, as well as tufaceous limestone, and it is more than probable 

 that the kankar of the plains is similarly formed. Lignite was dis- 

 covered in this range by Captain Herbert, and by Lieutenant Cautley, 

 of which an account has been given by the above two gentlemen. A 



