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5. The presence of variegated (? Miocene) clays and travertine 

 as a capping to the Till at Cape Jervis, although in the absence 

 of fossils cannot be taken as conclusive, seems to point, like the 

 Hallett's Cove section, to a Pre-Miocene age of the glaciation. 



6. The additions to our knowledge of this important period of 

 glaciation in Southern Australia tend to confirm the opinion 

 already expressed by us elsewhere,* that the South Australian 

 glaciation was synchronous with the great Victorian glaciation 

 of Permp-Carboniferous age. No palseontological proofs of this 

 have been obtained in the drift beds of this colony, but the 

 lithological characteristics of the South Australian drift agree 

 very closely with the Victorian beds ; whilst the great changes 

 that have taken place in the physical features of the country 

 since the ice age, may well draw upon a period of time for their 

 accomplishment equal to that which separates the Permo- 

 Carboniferous age from the present. 



Thanks are due to Mr. F. G. Raymond, of Yankalilla, by whose 

 valuable assistance our work was greatly facilitated in examining 

 the Yankalilla and Cape Jervis Districts. 



Aus. Asso. Adv. Science, vol. VI., p. 318. 



