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[No. 1, 
On the Sub-Himalayan rocl-s. 
righteous deeds have been notably unintermitted ; with purpose to 
advance the merit of his mother and father, in his dominions, in this 
town of Erikaina, has caused this substantial temple of the adorable 
Narayana, in form a boar, affectionately attached to the world, to be 
constructed. 
May happiness attend the kine, the Brahmans, the magnates, and 
all the subjects. The end. 
Camp Fran, Saugor District , December 31, 1860. 
On the Sub-Himalayan rocks between the Ganges and the Jumna.— 
By Henry B. Medlicott, A. B., F. G. S., Professor of Geology, 
Thomason College, Boorlcee. 
(Abstract.) 
Pointing out briefly how, from the abundance of the fossil evidence, 
the Siwalik strata had at once taken their position in the acknow- 
ledged series of rock-formations, while very little indeed was known 
of their physical structure ; and, how at the same time other groups 
of Indian rocks, whose stratigraphical relations were well known, 
had not as yet been accurately placed in the general succession, 
owing to the absence of such fossil evidence, Mr. Medlicott stated 
that his own attention had been specially directed to investigating 
the physical structure of the district referred to ; not to the collection 
of fossils. 
The rocks included are the Siwalik and the Nummulitic groups, 
and a series of schistose rocks, older than both these and lying to 
the north of them. The present notice was principally concerned with 
the newer groups, (the Upper Nummulitic and the Siwaliks,) the 
separation of which from the lower and more indurated underlying 
strata is generally well defined. 
Up to the present time, our knowledge of these groups was as follows. 
The most connected sketch hitherto given is by Capt. E. Strachey, 
(Quar. Jour. Geol. Soc. London, Yol. VII. p. 292, 1851). This paper 
chiefly related to the rocks of the higher ridges and of Thibet, but 
the author refers also to the fossiliferous rocks at foot of the range. 
The section, given by Capt. Strachey, passing through Nainee Tal, 
