The Vedic fathers of geology

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This being so, the query would natu ally arise, that if the Vedic A’ryans had wide acquaintance with the elements of Geolowy, what 1s the reason of the paucity, if not the total ab-

sence, of any Indian Geological Literature worth the name. But, it is not necessary to go far in ‘Search of the same. For, during foreion roads and desultory incursions, the unsympa-

the soil, and rested immediately on solid beds of oolitic limestone,” ( vide Lyell’s Antiquity of Man, 4th Edn. p. 214), and that, evidence obtained by Naturalists that soma of the extinct mammalia of Minche Court really lived ani diedin this part of France, at the ~time of the embedding of the flint tools in fluviatile strata, is most satisfactory.” (vide Lyell’s Antiquity of Man, p. 172, Edn. 4th.).

Sir Charles Lyell has also remarked that, “ two perfect ( human ) lower jaw with teeth ( were found ), all associated, in such a manner, with the bones of bears, large pachyderms, and ruminants, and so precisely resembling these in colour and state of preservation, as to leave no doubt in his ( Lyell’s Companion’s ) mind that man was contemporary with the extinct animals, ( Lyell’s Antiquity of Mans, 4th Ed. p. 72 ).

Now, in connection with the aforesaid human implements of flint, found resting on solid beds of oolitic limestone, I might here quote with advantage Sir Charles Lyell, as he says, in his Elements of Geology, p. 92, 6th Edn. that “the strata above the chalk haye been called Tertiary,” and all this proves beyond doubt the existence of the Tertiary Man, as the human implements were found rested immediately on solid beds of colitic lime-stone.