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calciferous rock and clays here is notable, since in the contact 

 of equivalent strata on the Moorabool this order is reversed.^ 



Some years ago a fine collection of fossils was made from the 

 lower strata, the names of which we will include with those from 

 a similar deposit at Skinner's, higher up the river. Unfortu- 

 nately, further collecting at Dreir's is for the present extremely 

 difficult, the outcrop being now almost completely hidden, partly 

 by alluvium and sand washed over it by floods, and partly by the 

 dense undergrowth which afterwards sprung up. 



IX. — Village Settlement. 



This section is on the north bank of the river, and between 

 Myrtle Point and Skinner's. Some clearly marked fossil casts 

 were extracted from ironstone blocks cropping out on a road 

 leading down to the river, which is here 38 feet above sea level. 

 The lower portion of the bank is occupied by the usual Bairns- 

 dale limestone, and at a height of 50 feet above the river level 

 this gives place to soft fossiliferous ironstone. A short stay 

 sufficed to shew us that the casts resemble those at Boggy Creek, 

 as is indicated by the following examples : — 



Fossils from Village Settlement. 



Cypraea pyrulata Glycimeris laticostata, Q. and G. 



Tiirritella, sp. Limopsis insolita, G. B. Sow. (prob.) 



Spondyhxs gaederopoides, McCoy Chione, sp. 



Spondyhis pseiidoradiila, McCoy Panopaea orbita, Hiitton 



Pecten gambierensis, T. Woods, var. Corbula ephamilla, Tate 



Pecten foiilcheri, T. Woods 



X. — Skinner's. 



Going a little further west we come to Skinner's, where a 

 series of sections extend for about half a mile along the northern 

 bank. Since the silting up at Dreir's, this is now the only 

 locality on the river in which well preserved eocene fossils can 

 be collected ; in the ironstone they are, as we have seen, i-educed 

 to casts, while in the Bairusdale limestone unaltered forms are 

 rarely found. 



The earliest section worked is at the base of a steep bank 

 directly under Skinner's house. An almost similar section, 



1 Hall and Prichard : Notes on Lower Tertiaries of Southern Portion of Moorabool 

 Valley. R. S. Vic, vol. iv., n.s., 1892. 



