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some therefore inclined to believe, that as the Goonds are in the habit of giving 

 every eminence a name, this has by chance received the term above mentioned. 



On examining the hill we found that the eruption extends from the bottom to 

 about three parts up. The effect of the shock has been to tear out, and push to 

 either side, enormous masses of rock ; (many of which have been split by the con- 

 vulsion) and turn over trees of large size — conveying to the eye, the exact appear- 

 ance as if a long mine had been so laid, that when exploded it had completely 

 cleared a road-way of about 30 feet in breadth, and five or six in depth, leaving 

 merely the bare surface of the rock composing the hill itself, exposed in many 

 places ; or, as if a gigantic plough had been passed down the mountain oversetting, 

 tearing up, and pushing to either side, every obstacle that opposed it. — Rocks of 

 from 20 to 30 feet in circumference, are seen split in half and removed to either 

 side the line of eruption, not by any means exhibiting a tendency towards the foot 

 of the hill, but appearing as if torn from their original position, and forced to the 

 right and left — showing that the direction of the shock was from the interior, and 

 not the upper part of the hill, as would have been the effect of a landslip. Indeed 

 the position in which trees of large size are found, many of them with their roots 

 uppermost, and branches entirely buried in the debris, clearly show that their dis- 

 placement was occasioned by a more than natural cause. As many most respectable 

 natives testify to the truth of the terrific noises that were heard during the night 

 of the 27th May, we can have no reason to doubt this fact. 



However with the most careful search I could find nothing of a volcanic nature 

 apparently of a more recent date, than such specimens as are found all over this 

 part of Central India. And now Sir, without intruding any idea of my own, as 

 to the nature of the convulsion, let me begyour serious (?) consideration of the 

 following conclusion at which the learned Thuseeldar has arrived : viz. " That the 

 earth having become much heated, by the foregoing hot weather, had got fever ; but 

 having here opened, the bad matter had been discharged," and there was every 

 likelihood of her doing well again ! ! 



Your's very truly, 



D. Briggs, Lieut. 

 Supt. Jubblepore and Kamptee Road. 



JSeonee, 2bth February, 1847. 



Papers were presented — 



By Mr. Blyth on the species of Wild Sheep. 



By Dr. \V. B. O'Shaughnessy on explosive cotton and the results of 

 the Artillery trials at Dum-Dum. 



By Captain Madden, Bengal Artillery — Visit to the Pindree Gla- 

 cier. 



Reports were submitted by the Curators in the Geological and Zoo- 

 logical Departments. 



