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will give some idea of the present state of my cabinet. Laying aside direct geo- 

 logical reasons, which may hereafter be best referred to, the great variety of 

 remains already found in so short a period makes this discovery valuable. A farther 

 search on the line of mountains, of which the Sewalik may be considered the centre, 

 will, I have no doubt, establish the fact of the existence of these remains on tl.e whole 

 line. Lieutenant Durand, of the Engineers, on a late visit fo Nahun, was fortunate 

 enough to meet with the stratum of marie or clay conglomerate on the north face 

 of the mountain upon which the town of Nahun stands ; the remains therein disco- 

 vered, in my opinion, identify it completely with the Sew&lik stratum, the position 

 of both being similar and in juxtaposition with the calcareous sandstone. The 

 fossils in the Nahun deposit, which Lieutenant Durand has introduced us to, 

 consist of tortoise, saurian, mammalia, and fish, exactly of a similar description 

 to those found at the Kalowala Pass, the enamel equally perfect, aad the more 

 solid masses of bone as highly impregnated with (hydrate of) iron. Lieutenant 

 Durand's discovery is of particular interest, fiom its having at once established 

 the formation of the Nahun connecting link, as at this point the low line of 

 mountains skirting the Dhera and Karda Dhuns, impinge upon the great iiimd- 

 layan chain. Since the discovery of these fossils, I have visited the spot, and am 

 satisfied of the identity of this formation with that of the Sewalik, and have every 

 reason to imagine that an active search will not only shew that a similar deposit 

 exists on the Pinjore line of lower mountains terminating at Rupur ; but that 

 equal success may be expected on the left of the Ganges : as this is a mere notice 

 of the progress of thess interesting discoveries, it would be out of place to enter 

 upon the matter geologically. — There is a tradition existing, of the remains of 

 giants having been discovered in the neighbourhood of the Pinjore valley, near 

 a village named Samrota, the said giants having been those destroyed by the re- 

 doubtable Ramchandua. I have lately seen a tooth and a fragment of a tusk in 

 the possession of Lieutenant W. E. Baker of the Engineers, which were present- 

 ed to him by the Nahun Raja, as the remains of giants, and found near the 

 above village : Lieutenant Baker will take an early opportunity of sending you 

 drawings of both these fossils, the first a very perfect tooth of an elephant, with 

 the enamel of the flexures in the crown beautifully retained, the other the frag- 

 ment of a small tusk, I imagine of an elephant also ; both of these specimens are 

 completely silieihed : and from the appearance of the matrix, small fragme its of 

 which are visible in the interstices of the tooth, it would appear to be sandstone 

 or indurated smd : to those people who have time and leisure to visit Sumrota 

 and the PiDJore valley, what a fine field is here opened out for interesting dis- 

 coveries of the newer organic remains. I think that the circumstance of the exis- 

 tence of a deposite of tnis sort, either in or near the Pinjore valley, is mentioned 

 by Dow in his History, from Ferishta ; the bones having been found in digging 

 a canal, or in the construction of some work, where excavation was neces- 

 sary*. 



* The passage in Dow's Feristha is quoted in the appendix to Professor Buck- 

 land's note on the fossil bones from Ava. As it is short, we copy it, in hopes of its 

 leading to further inquiries for fossils in the Pinjore valley. 



" On the King's return to the capital, in the month of Rajeb, 762, (May, 1360,) he 

 heard that in the vicinity of Perwar, was a hill, out of which issued a stream of water 



