1840.] 



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of burden for carrying grain and other products across the mountains, but 

 we know little of their peculiar forms or qualities. 



Of the genus ^06', the buffalo (5. Subalns), and its representative, 

 the Arnee, or Urnee BMnse, are confined to the sultry forests at the 

 foot of the mountains. The latter is a very distinct variety, if not a 

 different species, from the Junglee Bhinse of Bengal and Assam, so well 

 known for the great length of its horns ; the Arnee of the Saul forest 

 is the short thick horned varietj^, of which there are many skulls, pre- 

 served in our Museums, and is said to be a much lighter made animal, 

 though with a thicker skin than the Junglee BMnse. The Zebu {Bos 

 indicuH) is common in every part of the Hills ; but the peculiar and ap- 

 propriate species of the Himalaj'as is the Changree, or Yak {Bos 

 p/Fphagus, Pallas), which composes the domestic cattle of Tartary, and 

 is not uncommon on the southern slopes of the higher Mountains, where 

 a cross between it and the Zebu, or common Indi m Ox, is much used in 

 agriculture, and preferred to either of the pure races. This hybrid is 

 not uncommon at Simla, and it is to be hoped that some intelligent ob- 

 server will take advantage of this circumstance to ascertain from actual 

 experiments whether the sexes be productive inter se, or when united 

 with one of the pure races ; or whether, like the common mule, they be 

 absolutely barren. Lieut. Smith informs me that he has seen the Yak 

 wild on the confines of Chinese Tartary. — RoyWs Illustrations of the 

 Botany, Sfc. of the Himalayan Mountains, Supplementary Part. 



Art. X,-— Beryl Mine of Paddioor^ and Geognostic Position of this 

 Gem, in Coimhatoor, Southern India. — By Lieut. Newbold, Madras 

 Army, A. D. C. to Brigadier- General Wilson, C.B. 

 The Beryl mine of Paddioor, or Patialey as it is sometimes termed, is 

 situated at the eastern extremity of a village of the same name, in the 

 Kanghyum Taluk, in the Coimbatoor Collectorate, about forty miles 

 E.N.E. from the town of Coimbatoor, which lies in Lat. 11® N., and Long. 

 77" r E. The surrounding country is an undulating plain, studded with 

 a few short clusters of hills, principally of gneiss and quartz rock. The 

 surface of the plain is intersected by a few ravines and rivulets, flowing 

 towards the Noel river, which, rising in the Nilgherry ('hain, pursues an 

 easterly course to the Cauvery. The latter river flows through the midst 

 of this great plain, which is bounded by the Nilgherries to the west, and 



