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generally a great likeness to tlie Tripetty sandstones, but have Htberto yielded 
no traces of marine organisms. 
There remains now but tbe plant-bearing beds of Sikkim to be mentioned. 
They are grey sandstones with coal seams which protrude in no great thickness 
from below the overturned crystalline schists. Though so slightly developed 
vertically, the beds have yet a considerable horizontal extension, as they follow 
the foot of the mountains from the eastern boundary of Nepal all through 
Sikkim. 
The age of all the several divisions of the Gondwana system in relation to the 
scale accepted in Europe was till recently but very approximately determined; 
and even still, after that so much has been settled by Foistmantel’s work on the 
floras of these deposits, the discussion of this theme cannot yet be regarded as 
at an end, as, in regard to stratigraphic palasophytology, there has been till now 
no opportunity for really foundational work. 
According to Feistmantel’s publications we can set up the following synchro¬ 
nistic table of the divisions of the Gondwana system:— 
Europe. 
I. 
Bengal, 
II. 
South Kewah, &c. 
III. 
Satpura, 
IV. 
Godavari. 
VII. 
Sikkim. 
r 
Chikiala S. 
1 
sandstones. 
Jura 
... 
Jabalpur group 
Jabalpur group t 
1 
Kota and 
b 
Maleri beds. 
r 
1 
d fBagra group 
... 
Lias 
Raimabal Kroup ... 
1 
Atgurh sand--{ 
4‘C Benwa group 
Sir on cha 
stone. 1 
"rt M 1 
sandstone. 
b 
PacTimari gr. 
Keuper 
Panchet group ... 
Alniod group 'I 
Kamthi group 
f 
c Raniganj gr. 
Pali group ... 
Bijorl group J 
1 
Bunt-Sand-J 
"gS jlronstone 
Motur group 
. . 
Dainuda 
stein. 1 
5 shales. 
series. 
1 
Q ” 1 
I 
(_BaraRar group 
Barakar group 
Barakar group 
Barakar group 
Talcbir group 
Talchir group 
Talchir group 
Talchir group 
The period of the Muschelkalk is entirely wanting in this table: w'hat has 
become of it ? Has really every trace disappeared in the Indian Peninsula of the 
deposits of a period during which a great series of beds was developed in the 
Himalayas ? 
It is not my intention to review hero all the phases which the views have 
passed through with reference to the age of the several deposits ; this much only 
appears certain, that the Talchir boulder bed with its glacial blocks must in all 
