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I must also tell you that in the same pass, viz. the Amhwalla, in which the first 

 large fossil was found, Lieiit. Baker discovered some thin strata of hlue clay or 

 marie full of fresh water shells, amongst which I recognise a variety of Helix, 

 Planorbis, and an univalve ; the shells are in texture and appearance similar to 

 those found in the kankars of the plains, but very fragile and much broken. 

 There appear to be two strata, each of about 12 inches thick, separated by the 

 sandstone rock. The upper stratum has a superincumbent mass of sandstone of 

 from GO to 80 feet thick, the inclination may be about 35° to the horizon. In 

 these interesting discoveries now going on, we have already got possession (I im- 

 agine) of three distinct fossil deposits, and in all probability three as distinct 

 aeras. 



The 1st or lowest being that with the lignite ; consisting of a clay conglomerate 

 or coarse marie, full of remains highly impregnated with hydrate of iron, the 

 leading ones being Saurian and Chelonian, but abounding in bones and teeth of 

 Mammalia, fishes teeth and vertebra, and some few shells ; but the latter very im- 

 perfect and much broken, probably fresh water from their thinness. 



2nd. — The blue marie or clay filled with the fresh water shells above-mentioned. 



3rd. — The upper or grand deposit of the remains of the larger Mammalia now 

 found by Lieut. Baker, their remains being perfectly fossilized, and existing in 

 abundance in the superior strata of sandstone ; the general inclination of all these 

 strata varying from 20 to 35° to the horizon. 



" Nov. 25th. The parties detached to Sumrota near the PinjoreValley, and another 

 6pot near Nahun, have brougbt back a great number of fossils, remains of thelarger 

 mammalia. We await your answer to decide on measures for providing the Society 

 with specimens, unless there be objection to separating a collection, which will 

 undoubtedly be of the most extensive description ; for by keeping them together, 

 there will be a greater chance of a final classification. Ignorant as I am in fossil 

 osteology, I cannot even propose the animals to which our enormous bones be- 

 long : the teeth alone prove some of tbem to be elephants' . My friend Lt. Baker 

 has sent you a drawing of the tooth given to him by the Nahun Raja. — I have now 

 a similar one brought from Sumrota — and what is rather provoking, a splendid 

 specimen of a head, or as tbeChaprassi terms it'a ' Deo ka Sir, 1 which was found, 

 was carried off by a hill man of the party, who absconded, and bore off the 

 head in triumph to the Nahun Raja\ This head has been applied for ; but as it is 

 called a Deo ka Sir, the Raja, may perhaps not be inclined to give it up. — There 

 is no doubt of our finding many more, as the fossils are in abundance : all those 

 as yet found are Westward of the Jumna. — I have one party in the Sewiilik line, 

 eastward of that river, on the search, and when the jungle gets burned a month 

 hence, will have other parties in all directions. 



" I have just received a letter from Lieut. Baker, mentioning three other places 

 where these huge fossil bones have been found ; in fact, proving that from the 

 Jumna to the Pinjore Valley, these mountains abound in them. — I hope ere long 

 to report on the Sewaliks, or the line between the Jumna and Ganges." 



Lieut. J. S. Newbold transmitted a Memoir on the Naning territory in 

 the Malay Peninsula, drawn up from memoi-anda made during a six months 

 residence in its jungles, in 1832. The author proposes also to favor the 

 Society with his notes made on various occasions of visits to the indepen- 

 dent chiefs of the interior of Malacca, till lately feudatory to the decayed 

 Malay empire of Menangcobowe in Sumatra. 

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