690 Geological Observations made [Dec-. 



nearly similar was engraved in the plate of Lieutenant Burnes' coins, 

 Plate XL, fig 17, page 318 of vol. ii. 



Fig. 28, from the same source as the last, is also nearly a duplicate 

 of fig. 14, of the above plate, except that it has the sinha, a lion, for 

 reverse, instead of the horse ; the letters correspond exactly, but though 

 individually distinct enough, I can make nothing of the context. 



With these I close my present notice, not I fear before I have tired 

 out many of my readers ! and it is with some compunctious feelings 

 towards all but the few whose zeal in the cause of Indian numismato- 

 logy equals or surpasses my own, that I announce my having received 

 fresh materials, from various quarters, wherewith to revive the sub- 

 ject in the ensuing year. Mr. Masson's second memoir must also 

 find a place in the January number. On some future occasion I hope 

 to be able to strike off a fresh edition of the coin plates, and to 

 gather all that has been written on the subject, into a distinct volume, 

 when the train of discovery shall begin to relax, and the materials 

 scattered through the pages of the journal may be supposed to com- 

 prise most of the varieties of the ancient coins of India*. 



IV. — Geological Observations made in a journey from Mussooree 

 (Masuri) to Gungottee (GangautriJ . By the Rev. R. Everest. 



Mussooree is situated upon the outermost ridge of the Himalaya 

 mountains, which these ranges is made from N. W. to S. E. nearly, 

 and presents a bold escarpment towards the valley of Delira, or the 

 Dun, above which it rises to the height of nearly 4000 feet. 



This ridge consists of beds of compact limestone alternating with 

 others of a soft slate with an earthy fracture, and exhibits certain 

 characteristics, both in its mineral structure and in its general out- 

 lines, analogous to the transition limestone of the north of Europe, 

 and the mountain limestone of England. Its most general colour is 

 bluish hlack, and from this it passes through grey to greyish white, 

 and again, on the other side to perfect black, not differing there 

 from the lucullite, or compact black marble (as it is called). It is 

 carboniferous : it is highly cavernous. Many varieties emit a foetid 

 smell, probably of sulphuretted and carburetted hydrogen : indeed 

 where the rock is quarried, the smell is similar to that at the mouth 



* I issue with the present number a continuation of the Appendix of " Useful 

 Tables," containing Genealogical Tables of the principal Hindu dynasties, which 

 will assist the reader very much in understanding the allocation of the various 

 series of coinB described above : the tables were formed principally with this 

 view. 



