5 4 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 



On the geological map of the colony, the Jemmy's Point- 

 beds are noted as of Miocene age, which is undoubtedly 

 correct. The beds at Bairnsdale, however, are also given as 

 Miocene, but as they are wholly distinct from those at 

 Jemmy's Point, having scarcely a shell in common, it is 

 difficult to see how they can belong to the same geological 

 formation. In some remarks to be made later on, upon, 

 these beds, their relative position in the tertiary series will 

 be considered. 



On the accompanying locality map, the situation of those 

 sections at Jemmy's Point, which we examined, is shewn. 

 They are all on, or close to, the northern margin of the- 

 Reeves River, opposite Rigby, Fraser, and Flannagan 

 Islands, and thus not far from the new Lakes' Entrance. 

 An outcrop, three miles inland, is known to Mr. Gregson, 

 but this we had not time to visit. 



At " The Narrows," the fossiliferous strata crop out on 

 the shore line, and extend for a few feet up the side of the 

 bank. A section about three-quarters of a mile inland, on 

 the line of a timher tramway near the Ti Tree Swamp, is 

 slightl}' but not much higher, and at the horse shoe indenta- 

 tion, opposite Flannagan Island, the fossils were found from 

 the margin of the river up t^) about forty or fifty feet on the 

 bank. 



These are all the outcrops we saw, but I think it highly 

 probable that there are others, both along the shores of 

 Reeves River from Lake King to Jemmy's Point, as well as 

 for a short distance inland. At all the sections, except that 

 at the Ti Tree Creek, blocks of flaggy sandstone were 

 observed, either above or below the fossil beds ; and what 

 looked like the same strata shewed a good distance up, on 

 the side of a hill between Jemmy's Point and Flannagan 

 Islands. When in "The Narrows," I concluded that the 

 fossils lay beneath the sandstone, but at the " Horse Shoe," 

 the latter appeared to be inter-stratified with the fossiliferous 

 deposit. 1 cannot, however, affirm that such is the case, as^ 

 possibly the apparent superior position of the fossils in one 

 part ot the section may be otherwise explained. 



The bank on the north side of Reeves River reaches to a 

 height of from 150 to 300 feet, and is evidently the old 

 coast lino. The islands in the channel are flat and marshy,, 

 while the narrow strip of land, which alone separates the 

 river from the ocean, consists principally of low sand dunes. 

 The present coast features are, no doubt, due to the gradual 



