1833.] Note on the Fossil Palms and Shells of Sdgar. 639 
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Date. Time. Remarks. 
October 18th, 
4-55, p. M. severe, andushered in! Samecharacter as last one; was 
witha loud noise. felt slightly at Allahabad, lasted 
here at least a minute. 
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26th,} 10-37, a. m. slight. 
November 8th,}3-35 a. M. slight. 
16th,| At midnight, slight. 
26th,}11-45 pv. M. severe. This was of the up and down 
In all, 39 shocks have been not-|kind, lasted a minute, and occur- 
ed : many slight ones have occur-|ring at the fall moon, when the 
red besides. whole people of Nepal were pray- 
ing at Pasputnath, exciteda great 
commotion, and was the only in- 
stance where the prophecies of the 
Brahmins were realized, although 
a hundred lucky moments had for 
the last three months been deter- 
mined on for the occurrence of 
violent shocks. 
VII.—Note on the Fossil Palms and Shells lately discovered on the Table- 
land of Sdgar, in Central India. By H. H. Spry, Esq. Bengal Medical 
Service. 
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[Read at the Meeting of the 26th December. | 
Some months since, when I forwarded a specimen of the silicified palm 
trees, I stated that the trap hills about Sagar, which are at an eleva- 
tion of upwards of 2000 feet above the sea, formed an amphitheatre, 
not however in one continuous circle, but with here and there a break. 
Within this circle of trap hills, I ought to have stated that a second jutted 
out of compact red sandstone, but of a less elevated extent, being por- 
tions of the great Vindya range. 
I took occasion to advert to the former of these two formations, 
because it was at the foot of the portion that ranges along the Jabal- 
pur road: the limestone bed (travertine and crystallized calcareous 
spar) projects ; on which, mixed with the ¢rap debris, the silicified fossil 
trees are found. I lay stress on the word silicified, for it seems singular 
that silex should be the fossilizing mineral of remains found ona calca- 
reous bed. It would seem to indicate that the bed these remains now 
repose on could not have been the place of their growth*, but that they 
must have been projected from a distance; and yet the distance could 
not have been great, for although the splintered condition of the trunks 
would indicate that a powerful force had been applied, the attachment 
still of all the tender tendrils, so peculiar to the palmata species, to the 
thicker parts of the roots, and which, though perfectly fossilized, may 
* The constant occurrence of flints in chalk is sufficient to outweigh this objec- 
tion.—Eb. 
