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53. God is my clothing and my dwelling. He is my ruler, my body, 

 and my soul. 



54. God ever fostereth his creatures ; even as a mother serveth her 

 offspring, and keepeth it from harm. 



55. Oli God, thou who art the truth, grant me contentment, love, 

 devotion, and faith. Thy servant Dadu prayeth for true patience, and 

 that he may be devoted to thee. 



V. — Notice of new Sites of Fossil deposits in the Nerbudda Valley. By 



Dr. G. G. Spilsbury. PI. XXX. 



[In a letter to the Sec, see Proceedings As. Soc. for May, p. 321.] 



The last presentation I made to the museum was part of the os 

 innominatum of an elephant, which, judging by the size of the sockets, 

 was supposed to be of larger dimensions than the animal whose bones 

 were delineated in your August No. for 1834. The specimen was 

 picked up on the hill close to Jabalpur, on the site first brought to 

 notice by Captain Sleeman, and whose discovery has been the parent 

 of the whole of my researches. This specimen was forwarded as being 

 the first that appeared to me of definite form sufficient to identify 

 the animal to which it belonged. Since this I have been over the 

 hill several times, but with the exception of one vertebra of the same 

 or similar sized animal, I have not been able to add more specimens 

 of sufficient size or determinate form to my collection ; though I doubt 

 not the hill is most rich in fossil remains from the quantity of frag- 

 ments of trees and bones strewed about. From a note of mine in 

 December last you were made aware that I was following up my in- 

 vestigations at Sagauni on the Omar Naddhi. These have now led to the 

 discovery of three new sites for the knowledge of which we are solely 

 indebted to Major Ouseley, the principal Assistant of the district, 

 whose zeal in the prosecution of these most interesting discoveries, 

 and kindness in aiding and facilitating their conveyance to me will, I 

 have no doubt, be fully appreciated by the Society when the specimens 

 are presented, and which I trust will be before the termination of 

 March. I shall now proceed to give some description of the present 

 dispatch, consigned to my friend Dr. Row's care, who will I know have 

 much pleasure in forwarding them to you. 



Seven of the specimens are from my old site of Sagauni, and as I 

 before forwarded two femurs, the present must evidently have be- 

 longed to another animal of the same species. They consist of a sacrum, 

 part of the os innominatum containing the socket, part of the os pubis, 

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