156 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 



Brachiopoda. 



Magellania sp. 



Bryozoa. — Several species. 

 Foraminifera. — Several species. 



The preceding list appears to indicate an Eocene age for the 

 fossils, and they are herein provisionally referred to that age. 

 This agrees with the note on the Quarter-sheet referring to them 

 as Miocene fossils, the Miocene of the old survey being, as is now 

 generally acknowledged by palaeontologists, either Eocene or 

 Oliffocene. There seems no reason to doubt that the beds from 



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which these fossiliferous blocks were torn form portion of those 

 beds of Eocene age occurring at Newport and Altona, near the 

 western shore of Port Phillip.^ These deposits have been proved 

 by bores and shafts to there underlie the volcanic rocks of the 

 Werribee plains. 



On the summit of the mount, a small shallow excavation shows 

 the occurrence of whitish clay, probably a large ejected block. 

 This clay has evidently been used as a pigment by aboriginals as 

 the excavation shows no evidence of being a natural one, and 

 small pieces and flakes of the clays are found in the immediate 

 vicinity. Along the summit also, and almost exclusively at the 

 western end, flakes and " cores " of various rocks — both local and 

 foreign to the locality — are fairly plentiful. The local ones 

 comprise the ejected clays from those only slightly altered to 

 those which are practically porcelain-jaspers. The absence at the 

 surface of greater numbers of blocks of this rock is probably due 

 to the fact that the aboriginals have used for their implements 

 and other purposes nearly all the material observable on the 

 mount. The foreign flakes are of red and white quartz, 

 quartzites, hornstones, and the indurated sandstones which are 

 found among the pebbly gravels of the Werribee Valley. 

 Several hammers and axes in the rough, together with a ground 



1 "A Contribution to our Knowledge of the Tertiaries in the Neighborhood of Mel- 

 bourne." T. S. Hall, M.A., and G. B. Pritehard. Proc. Roy. Soc. Vic, vol. ix., n.s. 1896. 



"Report of the Secretary for Mines Victoria, for year 1894." 



" Report on boring for Coal at Newport." Jas. Stirling. Prog. Rep. Geol. Sur. Vic, 

 No. ix. 



" Report on the Brown Coals and Lignites of Victoria." Jas. Stirling. Prog. Rep. Geol. 

 Sur. Vic, No. x., pp. 80-2. 



