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Point, which resembles tliat of Fyansford and Mornington, a 

 resemblance which it is interesting to note, is already recorded 

 by Mr. Reginald Murray in his Geology of Victoria, where he 

 calls the beds about a mile inland, on the east side of the Aire, 

 oligocene (11, p. 101), while he calls the other tertiary beds 

 of the district, miocene (11, p. 103). Both sets ax-e now 

 generally regarded as eocene, though differences in the faunas 

 exist. 



As regards the relationships of the two sets of beds, the sections 

 in this locality supply no conclusive evidence, since no junction 

 is visible. The fact that the sections on the coast, near Castle 

 Cove, are acutely folded, and show great variations in strike at 

 the three localities, might be taken as evidence that the horizon- 

 tal beds of Fishing Point unconformably overlie them. The 

 Castle Cove series is undoubtedly the older, but it is more 

 probable that the disturbance of the beds is merely a local 

 phenomenon, and that the subsequently removed upper series 

 partook in the folding, which ensued close to the flanks of 

 the mesozoic. Whether a similar disturbance took place on 

 the Otway side of the eocene is uncertain, as no clear outcrop 

 of rock in situ is visible. 



Evidence as to the succession of the beds then not being 

 available here, we must look elsewhere for it, and we find it, 

 as we have previously shown in the Moorabool Valley, where 

 strata, with a strong Spring Creek facies, underlie the oligocene 

 of the survey. We subsequently grouped the Aldingan and 

 Otway beds with those of Spring Creek. Our opinions were 

 objected to by Messrs. Tate and Dennant, who, in the same 

 paper, arrived at the conclusion that the Aldingan and Otway 

 beds represented an age anterior to that at which tlie Lower 

 Muddy Creek beds were deposited, thus essentially agreeing 

 with our previously published remarks. 



The Newer Rocks. 



There is nothing much as yet to be added to Wilkinson's 

 remarks on the newer rocks as displayed in the Otway district. 

 The pliocene of the survey, the greater part of which is now gene- 

 rally regarded as miocene, has not hitherto yielded any fossils in 

 this locality, and is apparently ascribed to pliocene age on strati- 



