The same can, I think, l)e said for the Grange Burn, but as^ 

 ■vvitli the exception of the one quoted, the sections are not good, 

 they have not offered the same attractions to tlie collector as the 

 more productiAe ones of Muddy Creek, and are therefore not so 

 well explored. I have on several occasions searched the banks of" 

 this stream from Forsyth's down to the junction, gathering shells 

 wherever they could be found. At one place, the height of which 

 is 390 feet above sea level, and thus 20 feet lower than the nodule 

 band, I dug out a tolerable numl^er of shells, but they were in so 

 fragile a condition, that only a small proportion remained whole 

 when touched. As the elevation led me to expect, the deposit 

 proved to belong to the earlier formation, none but lower bed 

 fossils being found. Amongst other characteristic forms collected 

 may be mentioned — 

 Yoluta antiscalaris Leda vagans 



strophodon Lucina araneosa 



Trigonia semiundulata Cucullsea Corioensis 



Lima Jeffreysiana Placotrochus deltoideus 



The section bears a very close resemblance to that immediately 

 beneath the nodule band at Muddy Creek. Identical fossils 

 occur, and in both the shells are comparatively scarce, as well as 

 fragile. 



The only place in which the nodule band is well seen is at the 

 spot mentioned on the Muddy Creek, where it has been laid bare 

 for a distance of about 30 feet along the face of the bank. Like 

 the beds which it divides so sharply, it is horizontal, while its 

 width varies little, if any, right across the section. As it is only 

 about six feet above the water's edge, it cannot be traced much 

 farther either iq} or doimi the stream, since in the first case, it 

 soon passes under the bed of the creek, as this rises with the slope 

 of the ground, while in the latter, both it and the beds overlying 

 it have been removed by denuding agencies, the lower beds alone 

 cropping out as the altitude decreases. 



On the Grange Burn, at about an equal elevation, similar 

 nodules, whales' bones, ttc, are found in the actual bed of the 

 stream, and though the layer is much thicker than at Muddy 

 Creek, it probably belongs to the same deposit. The Grange 

 Burn layer is the favourite hunting place for sharks' teeth, which 

 are so numerous in it that one man lately obtained as many as 30 

 by a few hours' work. Other curious remains are fairly abun- 

 dant at the same place, as ear bones, vertebrae, and snout bones 

 of whales, fish palates, ttc. These are sometimes mineralised, but 

 not unfrequently the bony structure is well preserved. 



The nodules themselves are rolled fragments of many sizes and 

 shapes, but all more or less rounded. Their colour, which is dark- 



