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Kittoes illustrations of Cuitack sculpture. 



[July, 



with the exception of the spinous process "being altogether flat and 

 unmarked. 



On the inferior or lower side of the vertebra, there is also a consi- 

 derable difference, that of the camel being much curved and hollow, unin- 

 terrupted by ridge excepting in the vicinity of the posterior extremity, 

 where there is a knob or round process : in the fossil this knob is want- 

 ing, but in its place there exists a well defined sharp ridge from one 

 extremity to the other. The transverse processes of the fossil are im- 

 perfect, but the form and angle of departure from the barrel of the 

 vertebra differs from those of the camel. 



The foramina for the transmission of the vertebral artery are well 

 defined in the fossil, the space between the entrance and exit occupy- 

 ing the central third portion of the whole length ; a prominent well 

 defined ridge runs obliquely across the plane of the side connecting 

 the upper anterior oblique process, with the lower and posterior extre- 

 mity of the transverse process, a very marked peculiarity, which with 

 the position of the foramina, separates the fossil from the camel. 



It would be a great assistance to us were the Curator of the museum 

 to draw up a monagraph on the Giraffe, including measurements in de- 

 tail of the skeleton, a specimen of which exists in the room of the Asia- 

 tic Society. The dimensions given in English and French measure 

 would enable us, under the impossibility of obtaining the skeleton itself, 

 of forming accurate conclusions as to the existence or not in the fossil 

 state of the true Giraffe*. 



Northern Doab, July 15th, 1838. 



VIII. — Sketch of the sculptured images, on the temple of Grdmeswara } 

 near Rdtrapur ; extracted from Lieut. KnTOKS-Jouimal. 



Thursday the 8th December we marched at -J past 4 a, m. and reach- 

 ed our ground a little before eight o'clock, having travelled over 9 miles 

 of road, though the actual distance from camp to camp at Rdtrapur 

 must be but 6 miles ; the distance measured in tolerably direct lines (as 

 in yesterday's march) was 8m. Of. 183y. The road winds a great deal, 

 partly to avoid nullahs and uneven ground, and most of all, cultivated 

 lands and villages ; we passed under mango topes for nearly the whole 

 way, some entire plantations, others the remnants of what had formerly 

 been such : most of them are choked with underwood and rank vegeta- 



* The Society's museum does not possess the skeleton of a Giraffe, or we should 

 have readily complied with our correspondent's request. The remains of the 

 animal which died some years since at Calcutta came, we believe, into Dr. Pear- 

 son's possession, but were not included among the collection presented to our 

 museum b* Haji Kerbalai Muhammad. — Ed. 



