1833.] Note on Fossil Bones near Jubalpur. 583 
has been met with in the portion of jungle which extends into the 
Bhil country*. The Gour, a species of bull, which by its description 
(as taken from a young one) must be the noblest in appearance of all 
known animals, ranges the hilly portions of the jungles, defying pur- 
suit. A snake, which by the testimony (exaggerated doubtless) of the 
natives, must equal in dimensions the pythons of antiquity, inhabits 
the low marshy recesses of the jungle. A flying squirrel, hitherto 
undescribed, is tolerably common; and lastly, from a casual glance 
I once caught of an animal, in the thick and high woods bordering 
the Gurum nala, near the valley of the Subonrika, it would be 
the corroboration of an anxious surmise, were after researches to 
establish the fact, that the Orang Otang is an inhabitant of these forests. 
V.—wNote on the Fossil Bones discovered near Jabalpur. By J. Prinsep, 
Sec. As. Soc. 
[Read at the Meeting of the 30th October.) 
The last despatch from our zealous and disinterested contributor 
Doctor Spitssury puts it in our power to speak with some degree of 
precision of the nature of the fossil remains discovered by Captain 
Sieeman, and followed up by himself, in the neighbourhood of Jabal- 
pur—a field, it must be remembered, that had been passed over by 
Captain Franxuin and other geologists without any suspicion of the 
existence of such treasures. 
The despatch I allude to consists of a classified series of specimens 
of the strata wherein the bones were found imbedded, with references 
toa rough vertical section of the country. (Pl. xx. fig. 2.) 
We observe that the low plains covered with jungle, at the foot of 
the hills in question, consist of sandstone lying upon granite, which 
protrudes in several places, as at A A A. towards the town. 
Above the sandstone lies a conformable stratum of compact silicious 
limestone, which on solution in acids proves to be composed of grains 
of clear silex, united together by carbonate of lime, here and there 
tinged with chlorite, or holding nodules of that mineral imbedded ; 
at other places, passing into pure quartz, and jasper conglomerate : 
no stratification is perceptible in the limestone, which seems rather to 
bear the character of a tufaceous deposit. At one place, E c, an oval 
* I have been credibly informed of this, by several who witnessed the animals at 
a distance, and afterwards examined their foot-marks (their surmises being corro- 
borated by the natives of the country.) 
