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Queenscliffe and for some distance south of the township along 

 the beach. Near the head of Nepean Bay high clay banks occur 

 known as the '' Red Cliffs." These could be distinctly seen from 

 Queenscliffe, and are probably of glacial origin, but I had not 

 the opportunity of examining them. 



Point Morrison forms the bold headland on the eastern side of 

 Nepean Bay. The beach is occupied by rough outcrops of a dark- 

 colored quartzite, somewhat micaceous in places. The beds are 

 either vertical or slightly divergent, exhibiting acute anticlines. 

 Observations were limited to the short interval during which the 

 steamer took in cargo. A granite boulder of small size was found 

 on the beach, and the rich clay soil of the local homestead, owned 

 by Mr. Thomas, indicate the presence of the glacial beds. Mr. 

 Thomas informed me that in Newland Bay, two miles eastward 

 of Point Morrison, some large granite boulders occurred on the 

 beach . 



Rog Bay. — The largest patch of good arable land on Kangaroo 

 Island occurs at Hog Bay, and owes its origin to the outcrop of 

 glacial clay. The coast is extremely rocky, and in most cases the 

 rocks face the sea in bold, precipitous, and often inaccessible 

 cliffs. Two small bays near the township afford safe landing 

 places. 



Glacial erratics are very numerous around Hog Bay. The 

 smaller ones can. still be seen on the ploughed ground, and the 

 larger ones are generally either heaped in the field or drawn 

 aside to the fence. They consist chiefly of granite, gneiss, or 

 quartzite. A granite boulder, measuring three feet six inches by 

 two feet six inches, has been drawn, with others, from Mr. 

 Buick's paddock into the creek on the west side of the cultivated 

 ground. 



The agricultural ground between Hog Bay and Kangaroo Head 

 affords many examples. A dark-colored laminated quartzite, too 

 large for removal, was noticed in one field on the east side of the 

 Head. It has split into two fragments, each one being about 

 three feet in length. The soil generally in these fields is of a 

 very stony nature from the number of erratics contained in the 

 clay. Some of the larger blocks have been apparently artificially 

 broken. One of these, a granite split into two large and a 

 number of smaller pieces, must originally have measured five feet 

 by two feet. 



A small bay on the east side of Kangaroo Head proved to be 

 specially interesting. Resting on old schistose rocks and a beach 

 of sticky clay were seen a great number of very large erratics. 

 The largest, a great gneissic block, measured six feet long by 

 four and a-half feet broad and four feet high, with another block 

 of the same kind of rock, of almost equal size, close to it, which 



