1 839.] Fossil Shells in the Savgor and Nerbudda territories. 709 



Dhoonra and a village adjacent, only differing in colour from the first 

 sent you, which were a reddish brown, and the others being white and 

 of a more calcined appearance. 



Some of these Shells being shewn to a native gentleman, he said, 

 that he had heard similar ones were to be found in Scindea's country ; 

 and on Mr. Fraser dispatching a man to the quarter indicated, those 

 labelled " Rae near Narwar" were brought in. 



About this time I forwarded specimens to Major Ousley, who was 

 then making the settlement of Betool, consequently surrounded by 

 Putels of the district, and on his exhibiting the Shells, several of these 

 country gentlemen came forward and informed him, that similar were 

 to be found in several places about the neighbourhood of Betool. The 

 principal sites are Sussoondra to the east ; Bhurkawara, Bhyawara, Jaora 

 to the south ; Budoree, Kolgaon, Gaekham, Bakore, to the south-west ; 

 and Moorkha to the east of Mooltaye. 



The next site ascertained was a bluish coloured Fossil Shell of 

 calcedony brought from Narainpoor, situated in the Sobagpoor Pergun- 

 nah, north of the Nerbudda, and finally those sent in from Domadadur 

 in the Ramgurh Raja's territory, south of the above river. For a 

 knowledge of the two last sites we are indebted to the assiduity of 

 Mr. Fraser in this most exciting pursuit. 



I have also formerly sent specimens that were known to have come 

 from near Mundla : our present circuit of the Agent to the Governor 

 General, has enabled me to ascertain the site from whence they are 

 derived; Phool Saugor, a village nine miles west of Mundla is the 

 locality, in a nulla called by the cognosient Sunkh Deyra, and on a hill 

 close by the Shell Breccia and Fossil wood were obtained. From this 

 place the only Bivalves (four in number) have been procured ; two of 

 which I forwarded to the Asiatic Society, and the remainder are in 

 Mr. Fraser's collection. 



Accompanying this notice, I send natural sized drawings (for which 

 I am indebted to my friend Captain P. A. Reynolds, of the Madras 

 Army,) of all the varieties we have now discovered. 

 No. 1. Specimen of a Shell from Dhoonra. 



2. From Phool Saugor, near Mundla. Those from Sussoon- 



dra, Gyekham, Bhurkawara, in the Betool district, 

 are identically the same species. 



3. From Narrainpoor, remarkable for the great breadth of 



the third whirl. Those from Rae Scindea's country 

 and Domadadur in Ramgurh are similar. 



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