1843.] from the Dadoopoor Museum. 771 



they appear to have a considerable resemblance to our fossil. It would 

 be highly interesting, should they be hereafter identified, and should it 

 thus appear that the groups of grotesque Ruminants now apparently 

 confined to the Prairies of Africa, had once a wider distribution. The 

 assemblage in one deposit of animals differing so widely in their forms 

 and habits, and in their adaptations to particular localities, leads 

 irresistibly to the conclusion, that we have before us the delta of a 

 large river, which, in one of the past configurations of our globe, must 

 have collected in its course the various spoils of some extensive con- 

 tinent. No existing river, excepting perhaps the Nile, could unite in 

 one vast cemetery the remains of every known order of terrestrial 

 Mammalia and aquatic reptiles ; of the denizens of the forest, the 

 lake and the mud bank, mingled with those of the wide prairie and 

 the sandy desert. 



A Ninth Memoir on the Law of Storms in India; being the Pooree 

 and Cuttack Storms of 2nd, and the Gya and Patna Storms of 

 5th and 6th October, 1842. By Henry Piddington. 



I had at first intended to include these storms in my preceding 

 Memoir as a second part, but as, when a storm or storms in different 

 parts of the ocean or on shore can be tolerably well traced, there may 

 be some advantage, particularly when the tracks approach the Sand- 

 heads, in keeping the documents apart in different Memoirs and 

 tracing them upon a separate chart. I have preferred doing so in this 

 instance, and I have published the Madras storm first, forming the 

 Eighth Memoir, as being of the two that which was of the highest 

 interest, though the present are of a prior date. 



On the 2nd October, the coast about Pooree and Cuttack was visit- 

 ed by a severe storm, which was felt as a gale at the Sandheads to 

 the north, and to about lat. 17| to the southward. In some parts of 

 its progress it appears to have been excessively severe, and two large 

 ships, at least the Acasta* and Jmaum Shah, if not more, foundered 

 within these limits ; besides many coasting vessels. 



* By an advertisement in the papers it would appear, that a ship of about 300 tons 

 had sunk in eighteen feet water off Juggernath Pagoda about the time of this storm, 

 which was supposed to be the Acasta from Madras. 



