Akt. II. — Geology of tJie Valley of the Lower Mitchell 



River. 



By JOHN DENNANT, F.G.S., F.C.S., 



AND 



DONALD CLARK, B.O.E. 



(With Plates II. to VIII.). 



[Eead 11th March, 1903]. 



Contents. 



PAGE 



I. — Introduction - - - - - - - 12 



II. — Surface Configuration of Area - - - - 13 



III.— Rose Hill Section 20 



IV.— Bellevue Section - - 22 



V. — Knight's Section ------- 27 



VI. — Boggy Creek Section ------ 28 



VII.— Moitun Creek Section ------ 32 



VIII. — Dreir's Section ------- 35 



IX. — Village Settlement Section ----- 36 



X. — Skinner's Section ------- 36 



XL— Saunders' Bluff 43 



XII.— Lindenow Section - - . - - - 43 



XIII. — Summary and Conclusion - - - - 45 



I. — Introduction. 



The previous literature dealing with this portion of the 

 Mitchell River area consists of: — 



(1) Notes on the Geology of part of the Mitchell River 

 division of the Gippsland Mining District, by A. W. Howitt, 

 F.G.S.i 



(2) Continuation of ditto^ 



(3) Notes on the Physical Geography and Geology of North 

 Gippsland, Victoria, by A. W. Howitt, F.G.S.* 



1 Geological Survey of Victoria. Reports of Progress, No. ii., 1874. 



'-' Ibid., No. iv., 1877. 



3 Q.J.G.S., vol. XXXV., 1879. 



