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lias observed a section wliich gives an anticlinal point under the village 

 ofDeiria, on the Murkunda river. My observations also give irregu- 

 larity of dip in the mountains in the vicinity of Nahun. 



The elevatory force does not any where appear, by which these hills 

 have been raised from the horizontal position in which they must have 

 been deposited, into their present inclined one ; but Dr. Falconer and 

 Capt. Cautley have both seen appearances of trap in the neighbour- 

 hood of these disturbances. My specimens and observations indicate its 

 vicinity on the northward of Nahun ; also in the vicinity of Kalsee, and 

 in the ascent to Mussoree by Kuerkoolee. The nearest points to the 

 southward where indications of trap are seen, are in the bed of the 

 Jumna, and one of these is alluded to by Col. Sykes (Proc. Geol. Soc. 

 Jan. 1832), when tracing the trap formation to the north, which I ob- 

 served in a small island called Oadhar, below the village of Kuttea, 

 End about three or four miles higher up the river than the Seeta Puhar, 

 and about thirty miles above Allahabad, and therefore near Mhow, 

 which is twenty miles below Murka, the two localities where volcanic 

 rocks have been noticed by Mr. Dean, in the Journal of the Asiatic 

 So ciety. 



These hills have, however, in the last few years, attained great cele- 

 brity, from their containing one of the most extensive deposits of Fossil 

 remains, which has any where been discovered, and which have been 

 made public by several officers of the Bengal Army, whom I am proud 

 to call my friends : as Dr. Falconer, my successor at Saharunpore ; 

 Capt. Cautley, Superintendent of the Doab Canal j Lieuts, Baker and 

 Burand, of the Bengal Engineers, in a series of excellent Papers in the 

 Researches and Journal of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta, and in the 

 Transactions of the Geological Society of London. To the two former, 

 this Society, the fountain of Geological honours, awarded two Wol- 

 laston Medals, in February 1837, for their discoveries in Fossil Zoology, 

 especially as displayed in their description of the Sivatherlwn gigau' 

 ieum,* a huge Ruminant, which, they conceive, serves to fill up the blank 

 which has always intervened between Ruminant and Pachydermatous 

 quadrupeds, for it combines the teeth and horns of the former with the 

 lip, face, and probably proboscis, of the latter. Lieuts. Baker and 

 Durand are entitled to hardly less credit, for their Papers on the Fossil 

 Horse, Hyaena, Bear, &c., and for having had the skill to detect, and for 

 being the first to have the boldness to pubUsh, in their Paper in the 

 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta for November 1836, the dis- 



• See No. 13 of the Madras Journal for a description and representation of thia fossU. 

 .-En. M.J; 



