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of mica slate, or gneiss. We find too on our way masses of slate 

 several feet accross lying in the granite, and pieces again of the size 

 of a brick, as if they had been imbedded in it in a state of semifusion, 

 so as to form an irregular gneiss. But these appearances are only 

 partial. This granite appears to range in nearly an east and west 

 line. We have crossed three different masses of trap on our journey, 

 besides the diallage rock, I mentioned, to the west of Mussooree, viz. 

 one on the ridge before descending into the valley of the Ganges, and 

 two others in the clay-slate, and talc slate. We could not, in either 

 case, trace their connection with the surrounding rock : but we, pro- 

 bably crossed them at nearly a right angle, and, if so, their ranges 

 must approach to a parallel with that of the granite. They had all 

 the characters of a common greenstone. From Gungotree to Dilaree, 

 the river runs through a gloomy chasm in the granite ; the branch 

 from Gungotree has rather a dingy hue, but the northern one called 

 the Melung, that comes from Tartary, is, indeed, a beautiful water — 

 as blue as the Rhone when it issues from the lake of Geneva. As the 

 stream becomes larger below Sookee, it is a grand and singular ob- 

 ject — with a body of water as great as that at the falls of Schaffhausen, 

 perhaps much greater, it preserved the appearance of a mountain 

 brook during the whole of the time we saw it. There is no perpen- 

 dicular fall, but the slope is so great that it tumbles and foams over 

 the rocks for the entire distance. 



To recapitulate the rocks observed in the order of succession, they 

 are — 1, granite; 2, gneiss and mica slate; 3, talcose gneiss 

 and talc-slate ; 4, clay-slate ; 5, Mussooree limestone ; 6, quartz- 

 rock, or rather quartzy-sandstone, and grey wacke slate. 



The relative position of these two last, however, needs fartherinves- 

 tigation, for there are undoubtedly seams of quartzy-sandstone alter- 

 nating with the Mussooree formation ; one in particular, several feet in 

 thickness, may be observed near the bottom of the hill, just above the 

 village of Rajpoor. 



V. Note on the Fossil Camel of the Sub -Himalayas. By Lieut. W. E. 



Baker, Engineers. 



With reference to a doubt expressed in your Journal for September,, 

 the specimens of " Camelidae" now in our possession, will, I hope, 

 be sufficient to establish the existence of that genus in the fossil state. 



Thev are : A cranium, with portions of both rows of upper molars, 

 shewing also the occipital and parietal bones, so peculiar in the camel. 



