1834.] Nerbudda valley from Tcndukher I southwards. 393 



opportunity of judging, but the Muttoor, divided from the Mahadeo 

 range by the Deinwa and Kuttai nalas, is trap, and that formation is 

 seen from Maljihir to Singanama, at which village the gradual ascent of 

 these hills from the north commences. The steep side is from Bhawun 

 (where the Jatra assembles at the annual festival of Shiv Ratri) : the 

 ascent from this to the cave of Mahadeo (situated some 4 or 500 feet below 

 the peak of Jutta Shunkur) is impassable for laden cattle, horses and 

 elephants with difficulty getting up. Near Bhawun is to be seen a 

 singular shaped hill (see fig. 3), from which all Goands firmly believe the 

 locusts issue, hence its name Teri Kothi. Of the climate of these hills 

 I annex a memorandum, received from Captain Franklin in 1828 : — a 

 season unusually hot on the Nerbudda and in the provinces, the ther- 

 mometer in that month being at Cawnpoor 11 8° in the shade, and 144° 

 Fahr. in the sun. 



May 21. Puchmuree, Noon. Barora. 26.50 Therm. 86. Fine 



Peak ofDokgur, 5 p. m. Ditto 25.60 Ditto, 85. Do. 



22. Puchuree, 8 a. m. Ditto 26.50 Ditto, 78. cloudy. 



33. Jhirpa, close to 

 Kunchuree on 



the Deinwa, 5 p. m. Ditto 28.35 Ditto, 98.. 

 being at least 20° cooler than the valley at the hottest period of the day. 

 Is it further confirmation of the coolness of these hills, that ferns and 

 moss are to be seen very luxuriant from Pugara upwards ? as I am not 

 aware that wefound them lower down. The animals are the same asonthe 

 plains, with exception of a beautiful squirrel, described by Major Sykes 

 in his account of the mammalia* of the Dukhun, and named by him 

 " Sciiirus Elphinstonii," his description accurately answering to a pair 

 that Lieutenant Williams, 29th Native Infantry, and myself, procured. 

 The Goands procure them in the mango season, a tree that pre-eminent- 

 ly flourishes wild in these hills ; some trunks issuing from the crevice 

 in the bare sandstone rock of three and even four feet diameter. 



My route back was very much over the same ground, except that I ex- 

 amined the river much more to the eastward at Brimhan Ghat. The bed 

 of the river is here formed of a conglomerate, (Br. Ghat,) in which pro- 

 bably the fossil lower jaw of the elephant which I forwarded to you for- 

 merly, was foundf. 



About a mile and a half up the river, the accompanying series of rocks 

 were found from B K 1 to B K 2. Number 1 is first met with on the 

 right bank, a slaty rock, with a dip of about 10° from the vertical, 

 stretching in a north-east direction ; next comes No. 2, in the same di- 

 rection, changing into Z\, with No. 4 intermixed. Close to the water's 



* Vol. i. Asiatic Journal, p. 165. f See vol. ii. p. 583. 



X Of this rock, great numbers of Yonis and Bulls are made, to adorn the temples 

 in this vicinity. 

 2 B 



