1837.] Geological Specimens from Kemaon. 653 



as usual knocks at the door and demands admittance. Vprji opens 

 the door and assisted by the power of the tdwid conquers the demon, 

 insisting on his quitting Ujain never to return. Ujain was thus re- 

 lieved from a dire calamity. Vi'rji reigned in Ujain for many years 

 and became a great monarch. His reign forms an epoch from which 

 throughout Gujrat and Hindostan, the Hindu year is dated ; thus 

 the present A. D. 1837 is 1893 of Vira (Vikrama ?) : he is recognized 

 as the founder of the numerous caste's which now exist ; before his 

 time there were only the four principal ones of Brahmin, Kshatria, 

 Waisya, and Sudra. 



III. — Catalogue of Geological Specimens from Kemaon presented to the 

 Asiatic Society. By Dr. J. McClelland. 



Anxious that the structure of Kemaon should be brought as prac- 

 tically as possible to the notice of those who devote themselves 

 to geology, I take the liberty to present to the Asiatic Society a 

 duplicate collection of rock specimens, the counterpart of which is 

 intended to be sent to the Geological Society of London. If this 

 small collection be of no other utility, it may serve in some slight 

 degree to elucidate the extensive collection of the rocks of the 

 same province, formed by the late Captain Herbert, and may assist 

 some member of the Society in the task of arranging the vast ac- 

 cumulation of materials alluded to. 



They are the specimens from which the mineral characters of the 

 rocks of Kemaon were partly taken, so that if my work contains errors 

 in the application of names, or if the substances to which certain 

 names have therein been applied, be erroneously described ; the 

 members of the Society and all persons who have access to their 

 museum will have it in their power to rectify my mistakes, which I 

 have no doubt are numerous. On going hastily over the reinspection 

 of the collection after nine months subsequent experience in Assam 

 and the Cossiah mountains, I have myself been enabled in the cata- 

 logue to make some corrections applicable to my " Inquiries in Kema- 

 on •** but there are other errors no doubt of still greater moment which 

 neither my time nor my abilities enable me at present to point out; 

 these may more readily occur to any member of the Society who 

 will undertake an examination of this collection. 

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