Records of the Geological Survey of India

Stoliczka is applying his pakeentologic.al master-key to discover the secrets of the roots of the Kuenldn on the extreme not-west of the great Tibetan mountain-area investgations of scarcely less interest are going on at the south-eastern base of the same in the S-likim and Bhutin Dome. [...] Hooker's original discovery of Damuda fossils at the tame of the mountains it appeared to him that the frquent _bands of graphitic matter in the schistose and gneissic rocks of the higher regions might indeed be the greatly transformed equivalents of the carbonaceous deposits of the Peinsula. [...] The track fft ipecilled in a letter to the Ruud of Revenue embraced "both sides of the Boree Pelting river from Jaiporo to the Ammo of the No Belling river to a distance of ten miles on earl side of the Boyce :Dolling including the lands near the Cherraphong hills Jaipore tla Malcolm river the Namehik Poong the Temp river the Nanwhik river the Jug's() rivn. [...] The only appmont prospect of useful void there lay in the possible t..uirelopment of the deposit on the same horizon to the deep of the ft. [...] In the Shillong region the elevation of the plateau took tpt form of an equal& rise of the whole area—the gentle slope of the cretaceous from the c die of the gimp past ing into perfect horizontality as I lay extend.