1840.] 



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Musk Deer, scarcelj^ larger than a Hare. There are the Cat* and the 

 Dog tribe, the Hysena, Bearf, and Ratel]:, and other Carnivora. Tn 

 the feathered races, there are Grallae, greatly surpassuig in size the 

 Gigantic Crane of Bengal {Ciconia Argald). Among the B.eptilia, 

 besides the Magar and Gavial, there were other Crocodiles§ of enor- 

 mous bulk, approaching the largest Saurians ; and the Testudinata, 

 which have hitherto held but a humble rank beside their Saurian 

 co-crdinals, here show their giant representatives. In addition to 

 numerous species of Emys and Trionyx not bigger than the small 

 Terrapins of the sluggish brooks of Hindoostan, we possess humeri and 

 femora of this tribe (with corresponding fragments of the bucklers) as 

 large as the equivalent bones of the Indian Rhinoceros. As the Ptero- 

 dactyle more than realized the most extravagant idea of the Winged 

 Dragon, so does this huge Tortoise come up to the lofty conceptions of 

 Hindoo mythology : and could we but recall the monsters to life, it were 

 not difficult to imagine an Elephant supported on its back. 



Vlll.^Memoir on the Geology of Cutch.\\—By C. W. Grant, Esq., 

 Capt. Bombay Engmeers. 



Geographical Position, and Physical Aspkct. 

 The province of Cutch, in the East Indies, is situated between the 

 22'* and 24° of north latitude, and 68° and 70* of east longitude. It is 

 bounded to the north by the Grand Runn, beyond which is the Thar or 

 Little Desert ; to the S. W. and S. by the Gulf of Cutch and the Indian 

 Ocean ; to the E. and S.E. by the district of Guzerat ; and to the N. 

 W. by the eastern branch of the Indus and the territory ofSinde. Its 

 extreme length from E. to W. is about 180 English miles, and its ex- 

 treme breadth is 50 miles ; but in one place it is not more than 15 miles 

 across. It contains about 6500 square miles, independently of the 



♦ Asiatic Researches, Art. XI. Felis cristata (Nob.). Smaller than the Tiger, 

 t Ibid. Alt. XII. Ursus Siralensis (Nob.). Size of the U. Spells, 

 t Messrs. Baker and Durand, Journal Asiatic Society, Vol. v. p, 581. 



\ C. Leptorhynchus crassidens (Nob.), an immense species far exceeding existing ones, 

 and forming a passage from the Gavials into the true Crocodiles. It has the cj'lindrical 

 muzzle and synostorized lover jaw of the former with the blunt thick teeth of the latter,, 



II From the Transactions of the Geological Society of London, Second Series, Vol. v. 



