24 Whale s Head and South Cape, 



ft. in. 



Slatyclay 10 



Shale 1 



Slatyclay 4 



Shale 1 



Total 224 9 



Proceeding backwards on the line of crop of the 

 strata, I procured the following descending series, com- 

 mencing immediately below the 4-feet coal : — 



ft. in. 



Slaty clay and shale 1 6 



Sandstone, clayey 15 



Schistose clay-beds, including 3 seams 



of shale and one 6-inch seam of coal 50 

 terminating in compact clayey sandstone, which contains 

 some of the impressions of the ferns common in the 

 rocks of our coal fields. I particularly observed the 

 Pecopteris odondoptero'ides, as figured by Strzelecki, 



Continuing along the sea-shore to the westward, and 

 still nearly in the course of the crop of the strata, I 

 traced the sandstone, with two intervals of sandy beach 

 and low receding sand-banks, for about a mile : the dip 

 varied to E.S.E. ; and the sandstone became flaggy at 

 some points, and variously veined and interspersed with 

 ferruginous matter. 



A small river, swollen with recent rains, and having a 

 bar on which bursts — as upon the coast every where — a 

 long succession of heavy breakers, stopped further explo- 

 ration in that direction. 



Returning to the coal cliffs, I scaled the precipice 

 where a recent large land-slip made it practicable ; and, 

 in doing so, discovered a complete section of the trunk 

 of a small tree coarsely mineralised with silex. 



I now remarked, high on the face of the cliffs, in 



