Eocene Strata of the Bcllarine Peninsula. 23 



points, the time at our disposal was too short for any detailed 

 examination, and we saw no exposure of these beds till we neared 

 Ocean Grove. The hills are covered with a thick deposit of 

 ferruginous grits, quartz gravels and mottled clays while still 

 more recent deposits from the beach of the lake. Near Ocean 

 Grove a well sinking on tlie flat showed that the earthy limestone 

 lay at no great distance beneath the surface. The sea cliff gave 

 a section showing an earthy sandy limestone varying in colour 

 from yellow to brown and containing flakes of black mica. 

 After spending considerable time in endeavouring to obtain some 

 fossils from the limestone which crops out on the cliff"-face just 

 below the Coflee Palace, we managed to get Terebratulina 

 Davidsoni, (Eth. fil.), fragments of Echinoderms and of a species 

 of pecten. 



The same rock crops out on the sandy shore of the beach below 

 high water mark, and Mr. J. Bracebridge Wilson stated* that he 

 has di'edged up fragments of it at some distance off" the shore 

 here. Eocene fossils are occasionally washed ashore on tne beach 

 a couple of miles west of Barwon Heads, where one of us has 

 found about half-a-dozen specimens while gathering recent shells. 



We have to express our indebtedness to the collecting of Mr. 

 Mulder of Geelong for some of the information as regards the 

 fossils from Belmont. 



REFERENCES TO SKETCH MAP. 



(Plate I). 



1. Number 1 station. ) 



2. Number 2 station, f ^'^^ Curlewis section. 



3. Kissing Point. 



4. Campbell's Point. 



5. Quarry, Fenwick's Gully. 



6. Cliflf section, Ocean Grove. 



7. Mount Colite. 



• Proc. Roy. Soc. Vic, vol. iv., N.S., p. 221 (discission). 



