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of the science. A paper by him on the reguzr, or black cot- 
ton soil of India, was in the spring of that year read by Mr. 
CHRISTIE before the Royal Society of London; while a very 
excellent account of the geology ofa portion of the Deccan 
is to be found in “A Description of the Valley of Sondur,”’ 
in the heart of the Balaghat Territories, ceded to the British 
by the Nizam in 1800. The paper isa very elaborate one, 
abounding in agricultural, statistical, and commercial, as well 
as scientific information. This was followed in 1839 by a 
geographical, historical, and statistical account of the ceded 
districts, distinguished by the same valuable characteristics 
as the paper preceding it. In 1840 Captain NEWBOLD visit- 
ed Europe, and was about two years absent from India. His 
time wherever he went was as usual devoted to those studies 
which from the date of his arrival in India until the hour of 
isedemise were mever for a moment interrupted. The 
_Egyptian Desert was on this occasion minutely surveyed by 
him: the survey afterwards became the subject of a paper, 
and the travertine around Rome, and conglomerate and 
recent calcareous formations along the shores of the Red 
Sea and the Mediterranean, became subjects of his special 
attention. Captain NEWBOLD was about this time advanced 
imomMeamcey post | Ol AL.C. to General WILSON to that of 
Assistant Resident at Kurnool; and in 1844—we are unable 
to trace his various contributions to the press for the five 
years preceding this—appeared a very able article in the 
Bengal Transactions—those already noticed having been 
published in the Madras Fournal—on a recent fresh water 
deposit in Southern India, with a few remarks on the origin 
and age of Kunkur. The origin of the vast masses of 
curious variety of limestone, so far as is known peculiar to 
India, he ascribed to the agency of thermal springs charged 
with lime, such as seen to have produced the travertine of 
Italy: that now coming into existence he considered due to 
the action of the rains. The matter was afterwards enlarged 
on by him, and he came ultimately to lean towards the [at- 
ter theory as sufficient to explain the formation of Kunkur 
without the aid of other agency, and this view of the case 
seems to have been fully made out by Captain James 
