1839.] Fossil Shells in the Saugor and Nerbudda territories. 711 



Mekul range of Hills, at the top of a steep trap ghat, on 

 the high road from Sohagpoor to Umurkuntuk, near a 

 village called Pureye; — the whole ground for some two miles 

 was strewed with Shell Breccia. 

 B. This is a drawing of a Shell also found at the same site, and 

 is not a reversed Shell. This, and the specimens No. 7 

 and 8. 8. found at Mundla, and also Betool, are the only 

 Shells whose whirls are twined as those of the present 

 day are. 

 C. D. Bivalves found at Phool Saugor and Mundla, and only a very 

 few specimens have as yet been brought in. One similar 

 was sent in from Mohtura Hill, (a branch I suspect of the 

 Mekul Hills,) in the Ramgurh Rajah's country, where the 

 Domadar ones are found. 



E. Also a Bivalve, great numbers of which have lately been 



found in the Nerbudda near Jhansee Ghat, a fossil field 

 which Mr. Fraser, the Agent of the Governor General, has 

 brought to light, and of which I shall have more to say on 

 forwarding some notes on fossils and sites from Hoshin- 

 gabad to this. 



F. Another Bivalve intermixed with E., but as yet only a few 



have been brought in. 



On referring to the plates of the Himalayan Fossil Shells attached to 

 the Rev. R. Everest's paper in the xviii. vol. of the Society's Transac- 

 tions, the only Bivalve bearing any resemblance to those under notice is 

 Fig. 1 3, Plate 1 st. described as -undetermined, which in general cha- 

 racter has much the appearance of some found at Mundla, but ours are 

 reversed. Plate 2nd. Bivalves, Fig. 26, b. the supposed Unis comes 

 very near our F. — all the others are totally distinct. 



The whole of the drawings are of the natural size, and I am indebted 

 to the able pencil of Captain P. A. Reynolds, of the Madras Service, for 

 their delineation. 



JUBULPOOR, 



I lth October, 1839. 



