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then* detestable and deleterious cosmetics. Their chief delight is in 

 bathing and champooing, which at Tiflis maybe enjoyed to perfection. 

 The baths, situated in deep caverns,are impregnated with sulphuretted 

 hydrogen, and their temperature I found at 112° Fahrenheit. 



Georgian girls are not unfrequently married by the wishes of their 

 parents at the early age of twelve ; for, although they are not as former- 

 ly, so easily smuggled out of the country for sale ; yet, the Russians are 

 constantly seizing them to gratify their own gross and vicious inclina- 

 tions. In every other respect, a spirit of forbearance is manifested to- 

 wards those who have sought protection under the imperial crown : 

 — whether it be to those hordes of barbarians which have intruded 

 themselves into parts of the Russian territory already occupied by Rus- 

 sian subjects, or to those restless and infatuated beings whom disorder- 

 ed imaginations concerning points of religion would not permit to re- 

 main quiet in more civilized countries. 



VII. — Explanation of the Sketch giving a geological Section of the Strata 

 from Nimach to Me'rta, published in the Asiatic Researches, vol. xviii. 

 p. 92. By James Hardie, Esq. Beng. Med. Service, 



[In the second part of the eighteenth volume of the Asiatic Researches, an ar- 

 ticle is publishedby Doctor Hardie, on the geology of Central India, exclusive of 

 Malwa, to which a geological section is appended of the " strata between Nimach 

 and the British Residency at Merta." Owing to the transfer of the editorship from 

 the then Vice-President Mr. J. Calder to ourselves when the volume was half 

 through the press (the plates being at the same time in the publishers' hands), it was not 

 perceived that the text did not contain any specific account of this particular plate, 

 and it was only on lately recurring to the records of the Physical Class that a sepa- 

 rate and detailed explanation by the author was found, which it has been thought 

 advisable to make public at once through the pages of the Journal, as some apology 

 to Dr. Hardie, for the imperfect justice done to his geological researches. Many 

 of our readers will be able to refer to the volume of Transactions for the plate in 

 question, and to others the nature of the country will be sufficiently intelligible 

 from the explanation itself, with the aid of a map, the examination being of course 

 confined to the surface and proceeding westward from Nimach. — Ed.] 



This section is not offered as being perfectly correct, but it will serve 

 to give a general idea of the rocks which occur on the route from Ni- 

 mach to Merta. The exact limits of the different formations are not 

 laid down with precision, the surface is in so many situations covered 

 with soil that I found it impossible to do this. I believe, however, that 

 the whole will be found to approximate pretty nearly to the truth. I 

 need scarcely add, that the exact position and breadth of the different 

 alternating beds are not intended to be represented. This could not 



