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to what has been already done: geologists are familiar, from the 
labors of M. de Strzelecki and others, with the fact that there exists a 
series of stratified deposits, consisting of siliceous and argillaceous 
slates, limestones and sandstones, stretching at irregular intervals from 
the Liverpool range of mountains in New South Wales to the extremity 
the fossil animal remains rest on a siliceous breccia, the age of which 
is unknown, and that the coal strata are overlaid by variegated sand- 
stone and yellow limestone, supposed from its few organic remains to 
belong to the pleiocene period, we have I believe stated all that is known 
* The Illawarra coal region is a hundred miles south of Newcastle on the coast, 
and is properly a distinct district.— 
a note, Mr. M’ 
+ In r. M’Coy here alludes to the Report on the Geology and Palzon- 
tology of this district. ; now read Fi press. “of which he was 
recently informed by ies : — . 
