1832.] Extract from Dr. RoyWs Address. 97 



writer in the Bulletin des Sciences Naturelles concluded, that this range 

 was analogous in formation to the Molasse of the Alps. My friend 

 and successor Dr. Falconer, without any knowledge of the opinions of 

 this author, determined on his first visit to the Kheri Ghat, that this 

 range was analogous to the Nagel/luhe, or Molasse, which is equivalent 

 in age to the oldest of the tertiary series of English formations, or 

 plastic clay, together with the Loudon and Paris basons. 



The valley of Dehra is elevated 2000 feet above the level of the 

 sea, and is filled up with diluvial debris from at least 220 feet depth 

 below the surface, as is indicated in the particulars of the strata disco- 

 vered in the sinking of a well shaft by the Honourable Mr. Shore, 

 detailed in the Gleanings of Science, I. 164. 



Discovert/ of Fossil Bones. 

 Dr. Falconer, in a letter received only a few days since, informs me, 

 that he accomplished the tour alone, which we projected to have made 

 together, for the purpose of visiting the place where the lignite is found 

 in largest quantities. He communicates the very interesting and 

 important discovery of fossil bones at that place : " I returned loaded, 

 not only with lignite, but with noble fossils of the monsters of the deep ! 

 bones of crocodilidce, fragments of the skull of large turtles, and a 

 fragment of a bivalve shell as large as an oyster." The identification 

 of the range will therefore be certain, and we may expect an interesting 

 paper on the subject from Dr. Falconer. It will be most curious to 

 ascertain whether this deposit of organic remains is identical with the 

 sources of the bijli ke hdr to the north of the great chain of mountains, 

 separated by the up-heaving of the latter ; and, moreover, whether both 

 formations are not connected with those of the Irawadf, so productive 

 in magnificent specimens of organic reliquiae. 



Hour of Maximum Temperature in the Hills. 

 One peculiarity in the hill climate is the early period of the day 

 at which the maximum of heat is attained. In the plains we know, 

 that if horary observations are taken, we find the temperature of 

 the air goes on increasing until 2 or 3 p. m. In the hills, on the 

 contrary, if the same kind of hourly observations be taken, and a fine 

 clear day be chosen, the thermometer will be found to rise rapidly 

 from sun-rise until 10 A. m. when it nearly attains the maximum ; the 

 increase after that hour does not amount to more than a degree or 

 so. As the latitude is nearly the same as that of Seharanpur, the 

 power of the sun's rays and the quantity of heat communicated in a 

 given time, must be nearly the same : but in the plains it is allowed to 



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