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and rests unconformably on the eroded edges of dark-coloured 
friable shales of the Point Marsden series. Numerous erratics 
occur on the beach, and are seen in situ in the clay. One of 
these, consisting of sandstone, is seen projecting from the 
boulder clay about halfway up the cliff, which measured 7 ft. by 
6 ft., and 3 ft. thick. This fine tabular mass is markedly striated 
and polished on its upper surface. From this point, to the extent 
of half a mile, the boulders strew the beach in all directions. 
Two granite boulders gave the respective measurements of 5 ft. 
by 3 ft. 9 in., by 2 ft. 6 in. high, and 7 ft. 6 in. by 4 ft. 6in. A 
large quartzite measured 7 ft. 9 in. by 5 ft. 3 in., and another, 
nearly even with the sand, was 10 ft. 6 in. in its longer axis. The 
boulder clay at Smith’s Bay goes inland in a southernly and 
south-easternly direction, skirting the flanks of the range known 
as the Gap Hills; it passes through the gap in the range, and 
expands in a southernly direction as far as Sections 272 and 273. 
On the land farmed by Mr. John Turner, the Clerk of the 
District Council, situated within half a mile from the sea at 
Smith’s Bay, the boulders are so thick that they have had to be 
removed from the ploughed land before it could be cultivated. 
One of these was a large tabular quartzite, 4 ft. 6 in. by 3 ft., 
and 2 ft. 6 in. high, which required, as stated by Mr. Turner, a 
team of six bullocks to draw. Most of these erratics strewn over 
the land are beautifully faceted, polished, and striated by ice 
action. 
On the eastern side of the Bay, the creeks which run at the 
back of the coastal range of hills, as well as the adjoining paddocks 
on the Queenscliffe main road, are covered with glacial drift, and 
in places the ground is simply a gravel bed of these transported 
stones. Extensive patches have been bared of vegetation by the 
presence of mineral springs, as well as wash from rains, so that 
the included stones of the boulder clay can be studied in this 
locality with great advantage. Dark-coloured siliceous quartzites 
(many of them banded) are much in evidence. Several varieties 
of pink and grey granites are common, some of which are 
extremely coarse in texture, whilst others are microcrystalline. 
Amongst other varieties were noticed: gneiss, hornblendic, and 
schistose rocks. Some of the granites closely resembled the 
granitoid rocks of the Port Victor district, whilst others did not. 
A careful study of the lithology of these boulders might supply 
a clue to the source from which they have come, as this locality 
is particularly favourable for such investigations, the travelled 
stones being in great variety and well exposed. 
The boulder clay rises to the flanks of the Gap Hills to the 
south of Smith’s Bay, but I was unable to find any place where 
the glacial clay could be seen in stratigraphical relationship with 
