XI 



ON SOME 



PETRIFIED SHELLS, 



FOUND IN THE 



GAWILGERH RANGE OF HILLS, 



IN APRIL, 1823. 



By the late H. W. VOYSEY, Esq. 



Assistant Surgeon His Majesty's Gilth Foot, 



This remarkable range of hills is called, by Arrowsmith, in his last map, 

 the Sindeh, or JBindac/mll ( Vindhya or Vindliyachala) hills. The same name 

 is, however, given to a lofty range of hills on the left bank of the Godaveri, 

 as it passes through Gondivana, and also to those near Gualior. I shall, 

 therefore, distinguish them by the name of the Gawilgerh range, particularly 

 as, after repeated enquiries, I have never been able to discover that they 

 were so designated either by the inhabitants of those hills or of the neigh- 

 bouring plains. They take their rise at the confluence of the Puma and 

 Tapli rivers, and running nearly E. and by N. terminate at a short dis- 

 tance beyond the sources of the Tapti and Warda. To the southward, 

 they are bounded by the valley of Berar, and to the north, by the course 

 of the Tapti. The length of the range is about one hundred and sixty 

 English miles, and average breadth, from twenty to twenty-five miles. 



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