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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I April 1845

1845

On an overhanging branch a seed (chesnut) of which the squirels are fond is placed and bound to the branch by a double band of cane ; the squirrel cannot get at the seed without putting his head through a noose of the cane and on his disengaging the bait the stone drops and tightens the noose round the squirrel's neck : they eat the flesh of this animal as a great delicacy. [...] Bini Gaum's village which we now entered is situated on one of the low hills under the Moyur mountain ; the houses are long and raised considerably on posts of cleft timber ilidiscriminately constructed on the top or side of the hill but the level of the floong la tolerably well preserved by varying the height of the sup. [...] The spur or outlying range is of a compact sandstone capping the sohists and dipping at an angle of about 28° towards the S. W. Near the summit of the range it contains a bed of very fine white and red clay which is extensively excavated by the natives who use the former as a whitewash and to paint the mark of caste on their foreheads. [...] The frequent alternations we see of those rocks in a very confined area induces the supposition of the beds having been folded back upon themselves and thus produced the appearance of a double and reversed alternation the upper parts of the folded strata having been carried away by denudation as is seen to be the case on the face of some of the magnificent precipices of the Alps. [...] A little to the west of Hulkoond the great overlying trap of the Deccan is seen to extend over the surface of the schiste and may be traced nearly to the base of the sandstone cliffs to the south and west covered by sandstone debris ; a few scattered sandstone outliers occur between Hulkoond and Kulladgbi.
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Pages
88
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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Description of Caprolagus a new Genus of Leporine Mummalia. By E: Blyth Curator of the Asiatic Society’s Museum.—With two Plates.
247-249 The Secretary view
Report by Lieut. E. J. T. Dalton Junior Assistant Commissioner of Assam of his visit to the Hills in the neighbourhood of the Soobanshiri River. From the Political Secretariat of the Government of India. With a map.
250-267 The Secretary view
Notes principally Geological on the South Mahratta country—Falls of Gokauk—Classification of Rocks. By Capt. Newbold F.R.S. &c. Assistant Commissioner Kurnool.
268-306 The Secretary view
An Account of the early Ghiljāees. By Major R.Lekch C. B. late Political Agent Torān Ghiljāees at Kālāt-i- Ghiljāee. From the Political Secretariat of the Government of India.
306-328 The Secretary view
Oriental Publications for Sale at REDUCED prices by the Asiatic Society
i-ii The Secretary view

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