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Bay District, by C. Hodgkinson, R. B. Smyth, and T. Cofchman 

 (pp. 91-98). The series of beds closely resemble those of the Cape- 

 Patterson and Griffiths-Point areas, except that basalt-dykes and 

 volcanic rocks associated with the carbonaceous series of the latter 

 places are not present. A few very small coal-seams were seen. There 

 is an Appendix on the Cape-Otway District, by F. M. Kraus£, 

 (pp. 99-110,) which deals with that part of the Secondary coal- 

 bearing or carbonaceous rocks occupying an area of 600 square miles 

 in the S.W. part of the Colony, portions of which are overlain by 

 Tertiary beds. From a lithological point of view the coal-bearing 

 beds were found not to differ materially from those of Western Port and 

 Cape Patterson in S.E. Victoria. With the exception of a mass 

 of older volcanic lava near Airey's Inlet, volcanic products are absent. 

 Little additional evidence was obtained as to the disputed age of these 

 carbonaceous beds. Fifteen seams of coal were examined, all less 

 than a foot thick. The thickest seam crops out at the Wild-Dog Creek, 

 Apollo Bay, and has been successfully used by the inhabitants. The 

 immediately overlying, unconformable, and supposed Miocene beds are 

 exposed from Jan Juc to near Point Castries, in cliff-sections upwards 

 of 300 feet in thickness, and in outliers west of Cape Otway ; they 

 probably extend inland along the northern base of the coast dividing 

 range as far as Gerangamete. Overlying these, but frequently resting 

 on the Carbonaceous series, are fine-grained ferruginous sandstones, 

 concretionary nodules of ironstone, quartz-conglomerates, and quartz- 

 gravel, which are termed Pliocene, and occur at from 300 to 1200 feet 

 above the sea-level. The recent accumulations along the coast consist 

 of sand-dunes and calcareous aggregations, whilst at the mouths of 

 some of the estuaries and creeks signs of terraqueous changes are 

 visible. 



Reports on the Apollo-Bay and Wannon Districts, by R. B. Smyth 

 and T. CorcHMAN, follow (pp. 113-124). 



Apollo Bay is in a small synclinal fold. The beds are of a similar 

 lithological character to those on the same line of coast at Loutit Bay, 

 and also a similar absence of all volcanic phenomena is to be noticed. 

 A few coal-seams, a few inches thick, were met with. 



In the Wannon district a small seam of coal, 4 inches thick, was 

 pointed out ; otherwise the coal-bearing features of this district do not 

 appear to be favourable. 



There is an Appendix, by F. M. Kraus£, on the Sandstones of the 

 Grampian Range (pp. 125-130). This range encloses an area of 1220 

 square miles, of which about 780 are of the Grampian freestone. The 

 extent from Mount Sturgeon, on the south, to Mount Zero, on the north, 

 is about 54 miles, whilst the greatest breadth, from Mount William, on 

 the east, to Mount Dundas, exceeds 40 miles. The freestone rests in 

 some places on granite, in others unconformably on the Silurian and 

 Metamorphic schists of the gold-fields ; the beds dip at from 10° to 50°. 

 The freestone is said to reach a thickness of 1500 feet, without ma- 

 terial change in lithological character. Near the junction with the 



