opportunity of judging, but the Muttoor, divided from the Mahadeo range by the Deinwa and Kuttai nálas, is trap, and that formation is seen from Maljihir to Singanama, at which village the gradual ascent of these hills from the north commences. The steep side is from Bhawun (where the Jatra assembles at the annual festival of Shiv Ratrí): the ascent from this to the cave of Mahadeo (situated some 4 or 500 feet below the peak of Jutta Shunkur) is impassable for laden cattle, horses and elephants with difficulty getting up. Near Bhawun is to be seen a singular shaped hill (see fig. 3), from which all Goands firmly believe the locusts issue, hence its name Terí Kothí. Of the climate of these hills I annex a memorandum, received from Captain FRANKLIN in 1828 :—a season unusually hot on the Nerbudda and in the provinces, the thermometer in that month being at Cawnpoor 118° in the shade, and 144° Fahr. in the sun.

being at least 20° cooler than the valley at the hottest period of the day. Is it further confirmation of the coolness of these hills, that ferns and moss are to be seen very luxuriant from Pugara upwards? as I am not aware that we found them lower down. The animals are the same as on the plains, with exception of a beautiful squirrel, described by Major SYKES in his account of the mammalia* of the Dukhun, and named by him "Sciürus Elphinstonii," his description accurately answering to a pair that Lieutenant WILLIAMS, 29th Native Infantry, and myself, procured. The Goands procure them in the mango season, a tree that pre-eminently flourishes wild in these hills; some trunks issuing from the crevice in the bare sandstone rock of three and even four feet diameter.

My route back was very much over the same ground, except that I examined the river much more to the eastward at Brimhan Ghat. The bed of the river is here formed of a conglomerate, (Br. Ghat,) in which probably the fossil lower jaw of the elephant which I forwarded to you formerly, was found†.

About a mile and a half up the river, the accompanying series of rocks were found from B K 1 to B K 2. Number 1 is first met with on the right bank, a slaty rock, with a dip of about 10° from the vertical, stretching in a north-east direction; next comes No. 2, in the same direction, changing into 34, with No. 4 intermixed. Close to the water's * Vol. i. Asiatic Journal, p. 165. + See vol. ii. p. 583.

Of this rock, great numbers of Yonis and Bulls are made, to adorn the temples in this vicinity.

edge, No. 5, the river here being narrowed by these rocks, forms a rapid ; Nos. 5 and 6, shelving down on each side. On the left bank, a rocky platform of considerable width rises from the water, at an angle of about 30° to the top of the bank, the strata running as before, consisting of Nos. 6, 7, 8, in places traversed by quartz 9 in contact with 8, 10 in large masses, 11 overlaying 10, some eight or ten inches thick; after this to the top of the bank, 10 is seen traversed with much quartz varying from a line to considerable thickness.

About two miles, in a north-westerly direction, is the town of Chawurputhur, with a low range of hills at the back of it; the stratification of which is nearly vertical, (Ch. 1,) running in a north-east to south-west direction. I traced it down towards the river, where in a nála it changes to Ch. 2, and then into Ch. 3, forming a ledge of rocks that cross the river at Ram Ghat, and at this point terminate my observations.

N. B. In the construction of the accompanying map, those places written in capitals are laid down from a map of this agency, sent up from the Surveyor's General's Office, on a scale of eight miles to an inch, and this is just half the size. The Tek, a station of the G. T. S. is laid down at per As. Journ. for February last, p. 7, but not according to the map appended, which I know to be erroneous*. The six peaks and the Tek are all very conspicuous from the valley of the Nerbudda; those two near Futtehpoor, named Chutair and Dourea, are nothing in height compared to the others, probably not so high by 2000 feet; but close to the valley they look high. Choura overtops all, and is probably not less than 5000 feet above the sea.

Segouní near to Umuría, is the village close to which the fossil bones were discovered, as described in the As. Journ. for November, 1833.

List of Specimens alluded to in the above paper.

From the insulated hill near Tendukhérí.

Silicio-calcareous conglomerate,|
tinged with lithomarge.

Bel. 2 nodule of kankar.
Low Hills South of the Nerbudda.
Silicious jasper conglomerate, with
Quartz veins.

More compact, silicious limestone. B H 1
Columnar basalt.

BH2

K 1

T1

T 1
T 2
T 3

α

Same as T 1.

From Beltari,

Khyrie Hot-springs. Calcareous basalt efferversing in acids, and leaving green wacken? Vein of calcareous spar in do. Silicious limestone like T1 a. Stratified calcareous sandstone. Columnar basalt.

* On referring to the map in question, we find that our lithographist has made a mistake of ten miles in laying down the position of the Tek station, as compared with the table of Lats. and Longs. in page 70. The map was compiled from two sketch maps by different officers, which differed in scale and in the position of man of the principal places.-ED.

Accompanying these specimens were the following found by Captain OUSELEY, at the site of the coal discovered by him marked on the map. As this coal was brought to the notice of the Asiatic Society by Lieut. FINNIS, in 1829, (see p. 73, and by Captain CoULTHARD before that time (see As. Res. xvii. 72,) it was not known to whom the discovery was rightly due. We are glad to see therefore that the subject is explained in the following note from Captain OUSELEY, to Dr. SPILSBURY, which accompanied the above geological notice.-ED.

"I am between Jamgurh and Bhoragurh: a beautiful jungle scene. I found the strata in a dry nála, thus :

The strata dip to the west about one foot in a yard: I was in hopes of finding it nearly horizontal. I have commenced two shafts, and expect to find the real deposit about five feet below the last coal. The only water is in a fissure of this nála, not good: all jungle and hills around. On referring to my journal, I find I sent specimens of this coal on the 9th March, 1827, to Mr. MADDOCK, Captain COULTHARD, &c. and that I sent two servants with Lieutenant FINNIS, a year after, to point out the place. It was upon WESTON's mentioning to Captain COULTHARD that bits of coal were found occasionally in the Towa, that I sent the man, who traced it up to this place."