1839.] Notes on various Fossil Sites on the Nerbudda. 951 



No. 4, are drawings of the vertebrae of the Mammoth ; the centre one, 

 which is extremely perfect, was found imbedded in the same matrix 

 as the foregoing, near the village of Bikore, some fifteen miles up the 

 river from Hoshungabad. On the same paper a convex and concave 

 view of another vertebra of considerably larger dimensions has been an- 

 nexed, with their different measurements on the same scale, shewing 

 their relative size. The latter was found in this neighbourhood. 



No. 6, is portion of a ruminant jaw from near Niaghurreea, on the 

 Barunj Nulla, and about a kos from Beltharee Ghat,* on the Ner- 

 budda. The specimens brought in have been chiefly similar jaws and 

 cylindrical bones of either buffalo or bovine genus. This site has not 

 yet been visited by us. 



No. 7, a drawing of a Bovine skull, exhibiting some of the molar 

 teeth. No. 8, is a frontal view of the same. This skull was for a long 

 time unique, and was dug up at Heerapoor, on the right bank of the 

 Nerbudda, at the junction of our boundary and the Bhopul state ; but 

 since this, numerous skulls from near Jhansee Ghat have been sent 

 in ; they are characterized by very large molars, and a great square- 

 ness of the occiput, a point not shewn in these drawings; the horn is 

 imbedded in matrix, so that its actual circumference is not easily 

 determined, but it appears to fall short of the buffalo skull No. 3, and 

 as it does considerably in breadth of forehead. 



No. 10, 11, 12, are specimens from Brimhan Ghat, of two skulls 

 and a cylindrical bone. This site was first brought to notice by myself 

 in 1833, subsequently explored by Captain M. Smith, then in charge 

 of the Saugor district, and latterly by Mr. C. Fraser, the Agent. The 

 chief speciment was the head of a mammoth ; the dimensions of which, 

 as compared with a recent skull of an animal seven feet high, were 

 enormous. The foramen magnum of the occiput was three inches and 

 a half; diameter of tusk at base, six and a quarter inches ; and as it 

 stood on the occipital condyles, the height was thirty-three inches ; 

 breadth of the molars four inches. The fossil remains here have 

 been chiefly those of the elephant and bovine classes. 



From Brimhan Ghat, proceeding upwards, we come to Sagounee and 

 its neighbourhood — sites from which I sent numerous specimens that 

 have been laid before the Society, and among them a buffalo head with 

 horns (a delineation of which was promised in my preceding com- 

 munication) with one sent down by Serjeant Dean from the Jumna. 



* From this Ghat, in 1S34, I forwarded fossil specimens, pronounced to be those 

 of a horse. 

 f It has been sent to Capt. Cautlay for comparison with those of the Sivalik range. 



