624 Notes on the Specimens of the Kankar Formation, [Dxc. 
my acquaintance with the situations in which they are found. The 
portion of the subjoined note in which the fossils are assigned to differ- 
ent parts of the skeletons of various animals, has been derived from 
better authority than I can pretend to in such questions. From what 
has been obtained in the last year or two, it seems that fossils in great 
abundance are lodged in the bed of the river. They have in previous 
years of the works been procured in smaller quantities, from rocks or 
shoals differing in nature from those of the last season, having been 
removed in the first periods. One cause of so many having been of late 
discovered has been the presence of intelligent European overseers, 
whose curiosity has been excited by remains which were matter of in- 
difference to the natives. It is to be regretted, however, that the atten- 
tion of the men was not directed earlier to the preservation of these 
fossils. 
‘* T became acquainted with their discovery in such quantities, and of 
such dimensions, only after an absence from the spot, during which 
the excavation had been completed, and could then collect merely a 
few of the fragments, which an interest in the subject on the part of 
some of the sergeants had induced them to select. Much however has 
been lost, and as seen in the list, a small piece only was kept of the 
shoulder blade of an elephant, (No. 8,) described as very perfect, but 
which unfortunately, with the rest of the mass removed from the shoal, 
was thrown into the water of a deepchannel. I have lately got some 
more fossils, and in the course of the cold season, I shall have an oppor- 
tunity of visiting some, of the existence of which in the banks of the 
river I have just had information, and which (if the account I have 
received be correct) would seem to prove that the process of petrifaction 
is still active.” 
Captain Smiru has divided his notices under three heads, which we 
here insert in the same order, adding the characters of the rocks, and in 
some places their analysis, from the specimens presented to the Society. 
I.—Notes with Explanatory Sketches on a Description of Kankar found 
in Slabs in part of the bank of the Jamna. (Plate XXIII.) 
A description of flag, composed of sand coarsely but strongly ce- 
mented, in thin slabs, horizontally disposed, is found in considerable 
quantities at a short distance from Karfmkhan, near Oreyah, on the 
Jamna. The situations from which it is usually dug are shown dis- 
tinctly in the accompanying sketches, with the references and notes; 
but the flag is not confined to the banks of the river, (Sketches | st and 
5th,) being raised as well from sand-banks far out towards the centre 
of the bed of the stratum. 
