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ever be great, judging from the abundance with which they occur 

 between Bhar and Simla. In Sect. I, which points out the formations 

 generally, we have made no mention of tertiary rocks, not that they 

 do not occur, but want of time, and the state of the weather, has 

 prevented us, as yet, from examining them. From what has been 

 stated by some authors, they seem to occur in great abundance 

 in the Sewalick, or Sub-Himmaleh range, from whence the splendid 

 fossil organic remains lately discovered (which have excited such 

 vast interest in the scientific world), have been obtained ; with regard 

 to these deposits, little satisfactory information has, as far as we 

 know, yet been published. The fossil organic remains have received 

 much attention from Falconer, Coulley, Baker, Colvin, and Prinsep, 

 the last of whom, by his zeal, ability, and perseverance, has stirred 

 up a spirit of inquiry, and given a stimulus to science in general, 

 which before his time was unknown; his loss to India at the present 

 moment is truly a national one. By several individuals splendid col- 

 lections have been transmitted to Europe, among which we may 

 mention those of Colvin and Macleod. In the Palaeontology* of this 

 country, still, however, there remains a vast deal to be done. 



At Bhar, the secondary rocks we meet with consist of sandstone, 

 slate clay, and trap. As we proceed eastward to Bunnassur we 

 meet with the same rocks, having a dip S. and by E. with an angle 

 varying from 15° to 50°. The trap (green stone) abounds with iron, 

 giving the rocks in many places a reddish brown colour. The same 

 remark, applies to the slate clay, which in many places is much 

 decomposed. At the line of junction of the sandstone and slate clay 

 with the trap, they are frequently found to be highly indurated ; of 

 this appearance we have many fine examples at Bunnassur. The 

 sandstone, which is in general of a greyish white colour, abounds with 

 mica, giving it in many places a slaty form ; this variety is the micaceous 

 sandstone of some authors. In the locality just mentioned, I found a 

 large calamite in the sandstone, and in the slate clay at a short dis- 

 tance from it a fern and seed. The iron which occurs disseminated 

 through the wackes is the red iron ore, or red hematite, in too small 

 quantity however to be of any economical value. In proceeding 



* Since the above was written, we have seen the splendid collection of Capt. Baker 

 at Dadoopoor. In it we saw several specimens which could not be referred to any of 

 the animals already described, no doubt quite new species; one, of which however there 

 was only a fragment, seemed to belong to a genus hitherto unnoticed, approaching 

 in several characters to one of the genera established by Cuvicr, probably forming; 

 one of the connecting links. 



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