952 Notes on various Fossil Sites on the Nerbudda. [Nov. 



Our next site is Jhansee Ghat, where the bivalves (drawings of 

 which were lately forwarded for inspection) have been found. This 

 place and its neighbourhood has yielded a large collection of fossils, but 

 chiefly buffalo and bovine ; vertebrae and leg bones of the first, and large 

 skulls of the latter, bearing the same character as that delineated in 

 No. 7» From this ford all the way up the river fossils have been 

 found. At the Jogee Ghat, three miles below Berah Ghat, th# upper 

 portion of the head of a young hippopotamus was discovered, as shewn 

 in No. 14. The upper coloured drawing gives a view of the entire 

 fossil on a reduced scale, and the pencil one below a profile, natural 

 size, from the anterior to the posterior molars of the left side. This is 

 the first and only one of the kind ; almost all our collections being 

 derived from the elephant, horse, buffalo, and latterly a large bovine 

 class, as noticed before. 



In the ravines of the Nerbudda, close to Berah Ghat a fine lower 

 jaw of a mammoth was excavated and brought in, of which No. 15 

 gives an accurate facsimile, and some idea of the stupendous animal 

 it was originaljy attached to. 



Above Jubulpoor, as far as our present researches extend, but few 

 fossil remains of quadrupeds have been found, the perfect head of a 

 horse (drawings of which were laid on the table some two years ago) 

 forming one of the few exceptions. 



From Chewlea upwards, fossilized trees of various kinds and shells 

 alone reward the zeal of the philo-geologist. 



For the interesting fossil discoveries from Jubulpoor to Jhansee 

 Ghat the lovers of this pursuit are indebted to Mr. C. Fraser, the pre- 

 sent Agent to the Governor General in these territories, who from the 

 time of his rejoining this agency, has been most indefatigable in 

 bringing to light these treasures of a former age. 



I cannot pass over the aid I have derived in my illustrations* of the 

 fossils for the present notes (as well as those lately submitted of the 

 different kinds of shells, chiefly found in these territories,) without 

 saying how much I am indebted to the pencil of Captain Reynolds, 

 whose kindness and readiness to devote his time and talent to the deli- 

 neation of the numerous specimens sent to him, have been unwearied. 



N. B. Just as the foregoing was concluded, a fossil crab was 

 brought in from near Jhansee Ghat, a drawing, No. 16, natural size, 

 exhibits this as yet unique specimen. 



Jubulpoor, 1*/ Nov., 1839. G. G. SPILSBURY. 



* No. 3 is by Mr. M. C. Ommanney — not the first instance, by many, that I have 

 had of his ability and kindness. 



