Glacial Deposits, N.E. District, Victorict. 149 



general way. It covers an area of about 800 acres, forming a 

 hill rising to the height of about 120 feet above the general level 

 of the surrounding flats, and about 680 feet above sea level. 

 This hill will be referred to as Mundara, since Mr. A. H. Smith's 

 residence, "Mundara," is picturesquely situated on its northern 

 slope. 



The principal material visible on the hill is a yellow and 

 reddish-yellow finely sandy and gravelly clay with pebbles and 

 boulders. The colour of this material may be due to decomposi- 

 tion, but as no natural or suitable artificial section was visible 

 the colour of the undeiiying material could not be ascertained. 

 What can be seen, however, has the appearance of till. On the 

 north-western side of the hill, among the debris thrown out of an 

 old well — now filled up — are pieces of finely sandy and micace- 

 ous shale or fissile mudstone, with small patches of comminuted 

 carbonaceous matter, like fragments of plants. This material is 

 fairly calcareous, and of olive-green colour. Whether it occurs 

 as a stratum, or only as a large bcnilder, cannot be determined on 

 the visible evidence. 



Scattered rather plentifully over the surface of the hill are 

 numei'ous small and large pebbles, and a few boulders of grey 

 and brown quartzites, lydianite, plain, banded and brecciated 

 cherts of various colours from white to black, quartz, agates, 

 indurated and normal sandstones and mudstones, fine and 

 medium conglomerates, quartz and felspar felsites, and grey and 

 red granites ; while blocks of granite can be seen embedded in 

 the material at the surface. Many of these sandstone pebbles 

 and blocks contain casts of brachiopods of the Silurian period, 

 similar to those stated' by Mr. Norman Taylor as occurring in 

 the glacial deposits at Springhurst. Fine examples of these are 

 in the possession of Mr. A. H. Smith. 



Many of the pebbles are polished, widely grooved, and bear 

 numerous striae. Some of them have one side smoothed and 

 rounded, while the other side is sharply broken, or split off longi- 

 tudinally, as if along a joint plane. The striated pebbles are 

 chiefly of yellow, grey, and brown quartzites, and siliceous 

 mudstones. 



1 op. cit. 



