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to vent and are of a murine fulvous colour, paling and canescent 

 below and on the extremities. The fur is exceedingly soft, full, and 

 smooth of two sorts, or woolly and hairy, but both of silken deli- 

 cacy, internally dark slaty blue, externally fawn colour, more or 

 less obscured and darkened by the internal colour. The dimensions 

 are as follows : 



Snout to vent, 7 \ 



Head, 1 f 



Ears, | 



Snout to eye, ., -f- 



Eye to ear, 1 



Palma and Nails, 1 \ 



Planta and Nails, 1 J 



This beautiful little animal is appropriately dedicated to the 

 Hon'ble Mrs. Curzon. 

 Darjiling, April, 1857, 



Report on the Proceedings of the Officers engaged in the Magnetic 

 Survey of India. — By Robert Schlagintweit, Esq. 



General Outline oe the Eoute. 



I left Eawul Pindi in the Punjab accompanied by Mr. Monteiro 

 and the draftsman, Eleazar Daniel, on the 18th December, 1856, and 

 travelled by Chukowal and across the Salt Eange to Pind Dadan 

 Khan. 



I passed through the Salt Range by slow marches, which enabled 

 me to examine its remarkable structure and I made a halt at 

 Keurah, one of the principal Salt Mines, which gave me the oppor- 

 tunity of visiting the Mines and taking a series of observations 

 in them. 



Through the kind assistance of C. C. Smyth, Esq. Deputy Col- 

 lector, at Newrah, I succeeded in making in a short time a pretty 

 complete collection of the different kinds of Salts and Eossils. 



From Pind Dadan Khan I continued my journey across the 

 different Doabs of the Punjab by Shapore and Jhung to Mooltan, 

 where I arrived on the 4th of Jaunary, 1857. 



