9o0 Journal of a trip through Kunawur. [[Nov. 



want of manure, and their fields in consequence soon become impover- 

 ished, and do not yield a suitable return for the care and labour which 

 are bestowed upon them. 



Thus at each of these places, with the exception of Leeo, many fields 

 once under cultivation are now left barren, and their owners have 

 been compelled to seek that subsistence for their families in some 

 more favoured spot, which their native soil denied them. 

 THOMAS HUTTON, Capl. 

 Candahar, Assistant Paymaster and Commissariat 



8th December, 1839. Offit. S.S.F. 



Art. III. — Notes on various Fossil Sites on the Nerbudda ; illustra- 

 ted by specimens and drawings* 



In the following paper I propose to place on record the progress 

 made in fossil discoveries from Hoshungabad up the Nerbudda river, 

 to Jubulpoor, a distance of some 200 miles. 



Hoshungabad has already been brought to the notice of the Society as 

 a large deposit, a field zealously followed up by Major Ouseley, then in 

 charge of that district, by whose exertions the upper jaw now laid 

 before the Society has been brought to light, having served for years, 

 unknown, as a Dhobee's board for washing clothes on, ere a cognoscent 

 eye lit upon it ; for at first, it had the appearance only of an oblong 

 square mass of the conglomerate of the river, excepting at one small 

 point, which led to its development and present form. I am sorry to 

 say that some of the teeth were injured in entrusting the chiselling to 

 a country gentleman, whose geological notions of matrix and fossil, 

 were not matured. The teeth of this elephantine head are thought by 

 a friend of mine, to belong to that species denominated African. 



The second specimen laid before the Society, is that of a slender 

 tusk, imbedded in the conglomerate of the river, the several pieces of 

 which, joined together, amount to a length of five feet nine inches and 

 a half. To what animal did this belong ? The portion of tusks of 

 elephants that we possess, being at least treble the present in circum- 

 ference. 



Next are drawings No. 3 and 9, frontal and base of a Buffalo skull, 

 from the same locality ; exhibiting in one, the condyles of the foramen 

 magnum, orbit ; portion of horn, and general base of the skull ; the 

 other shewing the massy forehead, (nearly eleven inches between the 

 orbits), and angle of the horn in contrast with the Bovine skull to be 

 noticed hereafter. 



