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NOTES ON FURTHER PEOOFS OF GLACIATION AT 



LOW LEVELS. 



By T. B. Moore, F.E.G.S. 



(Read 14th August, 1895J 



Before giving notes on my late observations on the above 

 subject, I take the liberty to begin with an extract from a 

 letter by Professor E. V. Lendenfeld, of the University 

 Czernowilz, relative to my paper on the discovery of the first 

 proofs of land glaciation in Tasmania. The views of so able 

 an authority, who was the first to discover positive proofs of 

 land glaciation in Australia, will, T am sure, be interesting 

 to the Fellows of the Society. 



Professor Lendenfeld says :— " Your map shows that in the 

 Tasmanian hill country delineated the character of the 

 country, lakes, etc., is exactly alike the character of the 

 Niederen Tauern in Carinthia, Salzburg, and Styrii, at an 

 elevation of about 2,500 moires. It is very certain that 

 there— in the Niederen Tauern at that elevation — there have 

 been glaciers a relatively short time ago, and I would say that 

 in the similar country in Tasmania glaciers must have been 

 very recently, for otherwise the lakelets would have already 

 been filled up with debris. The glaciation deducible from 

 your map should, I think, be placed in a more recent period 

 than the glaciation of the Australian Alps. As to the glacial 

 evidence itself, anyone acquainted with the subject must 

 agree that the character of the country' depicted in your map 

 is a certain proof of the past glaciation of Tasmania." 



Now I will pass on to discoveries made within the last few 

 months up to the first week in November, 1894, of further 

 proof of land glaciation at low levels, in substantiation of my 

 paper on this subject read before the Eoyal Society last 

 August. 



Upon examination of the banks of the King Eiver, which 

 flows into Macquarie Harbour between Pine Cove and the 

 settled portion of the town of Strahan, I discovered large 

 ice-woin boulders striated and grooved in the deep gorge of 

 the liver situated at the Upper Landing ; also similar glaci- 

 ated boulders in Harvey's Creek at a distance of a quarter of 

 a mile from its junction with the King Eiver at the Landing. 



The boulders are large, many tons in weight, and are 

 composed principally of Silurian sandstone. The planed 

 surfaces, grooves, and striaa are fairly distinct, proving 

 beyond doubt that as the ice marks are not obliterated in so 



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