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" Higher up at Surbaperce on the Maan, I thought I traced the 

 following succession, (ascending) a light green stone metamorphic 

 or volcanic; a soft sandstone, very fine grained and white ; compact 

 limestone, bluish white ; and then the coral limestone, the latter only 

 containing corals. The compact fine limestone, is found at inter- 

 vals all over the jungle, and has been very largely used for lime in 

 the Mandoo days ; the old kilns are without number. Now as to 

 the fossils, I found them wherever an edge of stone lay over a con- 

 venient mud bed to retain them ; and oh ! the spear grass ! ! &c. &c. 

 The Echinida (Micraster coranguinum*) were in great plenty (the 

 Bheels call them Paunchia from their five marks) and what I 

 suppose to be JPecten 5-costatus.f Plagiostoma spinosum and Tere- 

 hratula octoplicata were numerous, the latter the most numerous and 

 in best preservation. There are a good many other things too 

 you will find in the box I have to day posted for you. There are 

 pieces of a large finely marked Echinus (Cidaris) and I have a half 

 one of the same sort of which I send you a sketch. I have kept it 

 to show the natives what I want on some future occasion. There is 

 also a rude impression on a stone I have got, of a very large shell, 

 say six inches long.J 



" I have kept half the fossils to shew Mr. Blackwell, but you will 

 find some nice small ones wrapped separately in paper." 



On receipt of these fossils, they were at once looked to, and it 

 was found that although some of these specific distinctions were 

 not correct, they entirely supported the conclusions of Captain 

 Keatinge ; and that here to the West of Mhow and Indore, in a 

 country where such was before altogether unknown, there existed 

 extensive beds of the cretaceous series. The importance of this fact, 

 in its bearing on all reasonings as to the physical geography of the 

 country at former periods, will be obvious to every one who has 

 considered such questions, and its influence on the question of the 

 still doubtful age of the rocks in the adjoining district was also 

 great. Eagerly therefore I congratulated Captain Keatinge on his 

 valuable discovery, and urged a further exploration of the field. And 

 I had the pleasure of hearing the result in the beginning of the 



* This is a Brissus. f It is s0 - X Inoceramus ? 





