12 Schouten Island, 



into the sea, dipping to south east at an angle of about 

 30° or 35°. 



The whole eastern side of the Schouten peninsula, like 

 that of the Schouten Island, is of granite, varying from 

 coarsely crystallised and porphyritic to very fine and 

 even grained, and from white felspathic granite to that 

 of a bright pink or red colour, every where forming 

 mountain masses. 



A legend which the Aborigines of Van Diemen's 

 Land have retained, concerning one of the granite 

 mountains near Wine-glass Bay, induced me to ascend 

 it. I was repaid for the labour by the discovery of a 

 greenstone vein running nearly north and south along 

 its ridge almost to the summit : there was no greenstone 

 visible in mass within a mile or more of the locality. 



Sandstone forms a small low island in a bay not far from 

 the bar entrance to Great Swanport ; and a few miles 

 farther north it is upheaved into hills of several hundred 

 feet of elevation, on the Schouten main-land between the 

 granite on the east coast and the greenstone on the 

 Swanport side, extending to about the head of Moulting 

 Bay. 



At the township of Llandaff, from which to the east 

 coast the country is but slightly elevated, sandstone 

 again appears. 



There is also scattered over a great part of that flat 

 neighbourhood, in the shape of fragments of silicified 

 wood, strong evidence of the presence of coal strata : 

 there is evidence, too, of the long-continued operation of 

 currents of water in the smoothly-rounded surfaces of 

 these naturally very hard spicular and splintery fragments. 

 The district through which the Apsley runs undulates 

 but very slightly, an^ the river is consequently tortuous 

 and sluggish : there is occasionally to be seen, disposed 

 singly or in groups upon these plains, tall bare druidical- 



