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collecting the fossils that were to be found cropping out of 

 the side of the cliff on the southern side of the liver, investi- 

 gations could be made at greater depths, by means of wells 

 or bores. They might thus get evidence of a sequence 

 from, perhaps, as ftir down even as the Jurassic beds. At 

 any rate, tliey bad secondar}- strata running through 

 Gippsland, which cropped out to the south of the Drouin 

 district, and disappeared as one proceeded eastward, under 

 tertiary beds ; and in a number of places, as at Bairnsdale, 

 Port Albert and Sale, calcareous strata had been marked, 

 some of which were in all probability of miocene age, the 

 principal ones being, of course, pliocene ; and these mesozoic 

 beds possibly dipped right under the Gippsland Lakes, 

 where they were concealed from view. If a bore were to be 

 put down, and if they were fortunate enough to pass through 

 fossiliferous strata, they might obtain a complete sequence 

 from the mesozoic up to the miocene beds which Mr. Dennant 

 had reported upon. It would be very interesting indeed, if 

 they could have such a collection of the underlying strata 

 made ; but, while that was not likely to be done at present, 

 it struck him that, by following up the creeks, it miglit be 

 possible to obtain sections which would be of successively 

 older age, for it would be easily understood that, in following 

 up such a creek, they would at length reach a part where 

 the tertiary beds would be found thinning out, and the 

 upper Silurian beds coming into view. It might be that 

 beds which lay far below the water line, at one point 

 approached the surface as they thinned out against the 

 Silurian outcrops ; and by thus following up the creek, and 

 examining the sections which it might present, they would 

 easily obtain strata which could only be reached by sinking 

 to a great depth in another locality. In this way, they 

 might get evidence of beds very much older than the 

 miocene beds reported upon by Mr. Dennant, and it would 

 be very interesting to get evidence of their character. That 

 -all the beds in that locality were not on the same geological 

 horizon, they had evidence from the different fauna obtained 

 from the strata at Jemmy's Point on the one hand, and at 

 Bairnsdale on the other. Mr. Dennant had determined the 

 Bairnsdale beds to be of eocene age, and the Jemmy's Point 

 beds to be of miocene age, so that here they had two 

 distinctly different horizons within a short distance of each 

 other ; and seeing that the district had been very slightly 

 explored geologically, a very slight attention to the 



