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those found are polished, widely grooved, and have the general 

 appearance of glacial stones. They also show the longitudinal 

 splitting and transverse fracturing so noticeable among the pebbles 

 at Mundara. It is, therefore, by analogy almost wholly that 

 these two occurrences are regarded as of glacial origin. There is, 

 however, to my mind, no doubt about the matter. 



It is very probable that they, or at least the visible portions of 

 them, are redistributed glacial material. 



All these occurrences lie among the late Cainozoic or younger 

 loam and clay of the wide valley between Futter's Range on the 

 east, and the Winton and Mokoan Ranges on the west and north- 

 west. Futter's Range consists of a grey and red granite of tine and 

 medium texture, as well as of aplite, while the Mokoan Ranges are 

 composed of similar gi\anites and aplite, and early Palaeozoic strata, 

 probably Ordovician or even pre-Ordovician. The granite is dis- 

 tinctly intrusive, and can be seen to ramify the sediments in 

 many places along the southern and eastern flanks of the latter. 

 The Winton Ranges consist of altered sediments similar to those 

 of the Mokoan Ranges. 



Along the valley to the north of Sadler's Hill, and distant 

 from it some 70 chains, there is another inlier of Ordovician ? 

 strata, forming a hill rising to about 50 feet above the flats. No 

 glacial deposits similar to those on Sadler's, Cox's and Canning's 

 Hills are observable on it. The same may be said with regard to 

 several similar inliers in the same valley, but to the west and 

 south-west of those mentioned. The reason of this is not 

 apparent, assuming the glacial deposits to have originally been 

 portion of one mass, and the question as to whether they are due 

 to a glacier or to floating ice is one that can hardly be settled on 

 the present available evidence. 



