584 Note on the Fossil Bones [Nov. 
concretion is enclosed, which resembles a seed or almond :—it is filled 
with green earth. 
Towards the southernmost hill this rock contains bones imbedded 
in its substance, and having that pink colour observed in the first spe- 
cimen sent to the Society ; they are accompanied with water-worn 
pebbles and chlorite. 
Half way up the same rock, of which Dr. SpiusBury represents a clear 
section to be open to view from Q to P, aplatform (Q P) exists, varying 
in breadth from five to twelve yards. This Mr. Lyeut would explain 
to indicate (as the rock above and below is of the same quality) the ex- 
istence of an ancient coast, worn away by the gradual action of water 
before the level of the latter was depressed: another partial ledge 
occurs on the surface of the silicious limestone, marking an anterior 
water line, when only the superincumbent beds were exposed to the 
corroding action of the sea or lake. It was upon this ledgein the 
southernmost hill that the first bones were discovered, imbedded in a 
gravel or alluvial conglomerate. 
The uppermost rock is a fletz trap, or horizontal bed of compact 
volcanic basalt, which must have been spread over the whole surface 
long before the denudating causes began to prevail, though pos- 
terior to the existence of the animals whose bones are imbedded in the 
subjacent rock at L4 ; unless indeed it should turn out that the breccia 
containing them occurs only in exterior patches, formed of their de- 
tritus, and containing also portions of the basalt, which one or two of 
the specimens whose labels are lost seems to render probable. 
Of the nature of the bones found imbedded at L 4, and of the period in 
the history of the globe to which they belong, the imperfect broken 
state of the fragments precludes us from pronouncing any opinicn. For- 
tunately, however, Dr. Spilsbury’s discoveries did not stop here; as he 
correctly observes himself in one of his letters, one discovery has gra- 
dually led to another, and he has become a geologist in spite of him- 
self, by the force of accidental circumstances, and the intense interest 
which such discoveries are calculated to awaken in the mind of man. 
‘A notice is inserted as a hint in the Journal, that fossil bones may 
be met with near Jabalpur:—‘‘ I am put on the qui vive—set 
out for the hills and bring in a collection of specimens :—my' 
people perceive my curiosity, and bring me in any thing uncom- 
mon they meet with:—I go to Brimhan Ghat, whither the Eu- 
ropean residents have constantly resorted for years past, and the 
moment my mahout sees a huge bone, he brings it to me, and 
it is discovered to be an elephant’s jaw-bone in a perfect state of preser- 
