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Numerous fossils of the Siwalik type have also been found in Perim Island, in the Gulf of Cambay, and among these a species of Dinotherium, a genus so characteristic of the Upper Miocene period in Europe.

After I left you sick at Macassar, the last trip we had together the old Siwalik I left the sea to younger men. But there you are, Doctor. Still at it. Why don't you give it up?" The doctor did not answer, except to make a bubbling noise in his tankard. He placed it on the table again delicately and deliberately, and wiped his grizzled moustache with a crimson silk handkerchief.

And the subaltern recognised with a thrill of delight that he was entering the wonderful Terai Jungle, the marvelous belt of woodland that stretches for hundreds of miles along the foot of the Himalayas through Assam and Bengal to the far Siwalik range, clothing their lower slopes or scaling their steep sides into Nepal and Bhutan.

We are indebted to M. Gaudry, who visited Pikerme, for a treatise on these fossil bones, showing how many data they contribute to the theory of a transition from the mammalia of the Upper Miocene through the Pliocene and Post-pliocene forms to those of living genera and species. The Siwalik Hills lie at the southern foot of the Himalayan chain, rising to the height of 2000 and 3000 feet.

Upper Miocene of Italy and Greece. Upper Miocene of India; Siwalik Hills. Older Pliocene and Miocene of the United States. The strata which we meet with next in the descending order are those called by many geologists "Middle Tertiary," for which in 1833 I proposed the name of Miocene, selecting the "faluns" of the valley of the Loire, in France, as my example or type.

"Yes, sir, it was Siwalik, the Master of the Horse to Prince Tasatat; and the lady is now with him on the road to Simla." "Simla! How do you know that?" "I was near enough to hear every word that the Indians spoke, and they said that they were going to Simla." "And Mrs. Irwin? She didn't resist? She didn't cry for help? She allowed herself to be carried off quietly?" "The lady was very proud.