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Notes on the Surface Features and Rocks 

 of nuriootpa and its neighbourhood. 



By J. G. 0. Tepper. 



[Read April 3rd, 1888.] 



Nuriootpa, a small township on the eastern boundary of the 

 Hundred of Nuriootpa, is on the banks of the North Para River. 

 Almost level flats surround it, extending eastward to the foot of 

 the Angaston Hills, which are an extension of the Barossa Ranges, 

 culminating in Mount Kaiserstuhl, 1,980 feet. In this direction 

 the width of the flat plain is about three miles. Westward the 

 Greenock and Mappa hills bound it at a distance of one to two 

 miles. Northward it extends to within a mile or so of Stock well, 

 and north-westwards still further for some six or seven miles, 

 being finally blocked by the junction of the Kapunda and Truro 

 hills. Southward it gently rises to a low ridge, at the western 

 end of which Tanunda is situated, and descends rapidly to a 

 lower flat, in which Betany is situated, and through which, in a 

 transverse direction, i.e., east to west, Tanunda Creek flows. 

 From here the same formation of the ground is repeated — that is^ 

 the flat between the river, which here, as far the greater part of 

 the way from ISTuriootpa to Tanunda, skirts the hills on the 

 western side — and the ranges to the east gradually rise, crossed by 

 a number of deeply-excavated creeks, until gradually terminated 

 by spurs from the eastern hills. Beyond these spurs the same 

 feature is again repeated where intersected by the Pewsey Vale- 

 road ; but the flat is now divided into two by a narrow range of 

 hills stretching in a curve from north to south chiefly. The 

 eastern flat is at first narrow, containing at the foot of the 

 steep first hills a small permanent lagoon of oval form, and about 

 ten acres in extent. Beyond a narrow low ridge formed by a 

 spur from the last-mentioned hill, the flat widens, and contains, 

 the shallow Hofihungs lagoon of irregular form and an area 

 of about 120 acres. The southern end of this flat is traversed by 

 a creek some seven or eight feet above the level of the lagoon, 

 and finally narrowing to about one-sixth of a mile, joins the 

 Lyndoch Valley flat. 



To the west of the range of hills just mentioned, and at the 

 northern end, the flat is interrupted by a somewhat rapid descent 

 of about 200 feet to the Lyndoch Valley, which is a nearly level 



