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exposed in an unusually hard and massive state, and have a dip 

 of from 6° to 8^ to the east. Thus, in a distance of somewhat 

 less than one and a half miles the inclination of the beds are 

 lowered fully 60° ; and, moreover, the bedding has changed 

 from that of a rubbly and ill-defined character to one more 

 massive and regular. Though the slates are here of a hard 

 nature, yet this quality can only be local. In a quarry about 

 one and three-quarters of a mile north, in section 100, Hun- 

 dred of Waterloo — perhaps on a slightly higher horizon in the 

 series — the slate still retains its massive bedding, but has lost 

 the characteristic hardness it exhibits in the cutting. It may 

 be described as a laminated, comparatively soft, also compact 

 stone, massive bedding, and jointed, producing slabs of great 

 superficial area, and from what I observed from buildings 

 erected of the stone in the neighbourhood, the beds are easily 

 cut transversely into suitable blocks for the artisan. As an 

 instance of these properties, a portion of one of the beds neatly 

 dressed supplies the place of an ordinary lamp-post in front of 

 the inn at Waterloo, which, including the portion in the ground, 

 cannot be less than from 12 to 14 feet in length. 



EXPLA^^ATIOX TO PlATE IY., PiG. 1. 



Cross sectional line about 4° east. On the west nearly in- 

 tersects south corner of Eeserve in section 121, thence inter- 

 sects Manoora Eailway Station in section 266, passing on to 

 the western boundary of the Hundred of Waterloo about four 

 chains south of northern boundary of section 29. Datum line, 

 surface of the ground in the valley of the Gilbert. 



Horizontal scale — -Three inches to four miles. 



A^ertical scale — Quarter of an inch to 200 feet. 



