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shells, and these may be mistaken for 

 portions of the conglomerate series unless 

 some care is taken to observe that the 

 valley has been choked with shingle 

 washing from the higher country at the 

 back. 



Leaving the Esk Valley, a long hill 

 gives exposures of fine sand, which is 

 in places fossilifcrous. This sand about 

 half-way up the hill becomes pumiceous, 

 and in several places the whole exposure 

 is a somewhat indurated fine pumice 

 similar to what is met with among the 

 shingle conglomerates at the Kidnappers. 

 No fossil leaves, &c., were found by me, 

 but in several other places the beds form 

 a very good collecting-ground. 



Proceeding towards the top of the hill 

 near Eskmount, the conglomerates are 

 again met with topping the highest hills 

 on the one hand, whilst the limestone 

 appears in several places, and along the 

 road up to the twenty-mile stone the 

 middle beds appear. Here the con- 

 glomerates top the hills on either side 

 of the valley, whilst huge conglomerate 

 blocks lie about the paddocks, and the 

 whole country hereabouts is covered with 

 conglomerates, alternating at times with 

 fine sands mixed with pumiceous clays. 



Up the hill leading to Carmichael's, 

 conglomerates, fine laminated clays, 

 sands, shingle, sands, and shingle cement 

 are seen in descending order in great 

 cuttings on the roadside. From the top 

 of the hill (1,250 ft.) the conglomerates 

 continue towards Pohui. the highest point 

 of the road (1,375 ft.), being occupied by 

 them half a mile or so beyond the road- 

 man's whare. 



Descending into the Pohui Valley, the 

 conglomerates are replaced by hungry 

 sands, and these continue as the charac- 

 teristic rocks until crossing a small bridge 

 leading up to the Pohui Hotel. Here 

 nodular limestone appears in the blue 

 clays, and fragments of broken shells are 

 common, but it is difficult to determine 

 their kind. Near the hotel limestone 

 blocks are scattered about, and they 

 appear to correspond to the lowest beds 

 of the Napier series. 



Titiokura Hill is made up of Miocene 

 beds and these are of extreme thickness. 



