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fragments of wood, pentagonal crinoid stems ^spines of echinoderms rather 

 numerous, and of three kinds, and a very deep form of oyster, &c. From 

 the compact nature of the rock, those only which weather out are easy 

 to obtain, and the general aspect of the fossils is quite the same as that 

 generally to be observed on the southern slopes of this Runn island 

 range. 



Rocks of the same kind sheet the surface until the edge of the 

 cliff to the northward is reached. Here in one 



North of Lodrauee. 



of the beds a number of casts of cylindrical 

 and furrowed plants was found, and in some earthy rugged beds below, 

 an assemblage of fossils similar to that abeady given, p. 105, (? Bathonien) . 

 Coarse sandstones underlie these, and beneath them whitish calcareous 

 muddy beds with a few hard layers, then dark shales weathered 

 greenish with bands of fossiliferous limestone; then more variegated 

 shales, some of which are gypsiferous, overlying some 5 feet of buff, 

 calcareous, glistening sandstone, with other shales beneath. A small 

 trap dyke occurs near this place, and a spur composed of flaggy calca- 

 reous beds runs out from the cliff to the Eunn, terminating in a peculiar 

 hill covered with white altered-looking fragments of close grained 

 apparently calcareous rock. Some ferruginous fragments and agates 

 scattered about here indicate the probable existence in the neighbour- 

 hood of the sub-nummulitic group. 



The part of the range just eastward of this is called the Gora 

 hills, and still further east goes by the name of 



Neelua Hills. , _^ , , .,_ , i i ■ i , 



the Neelua hills, where the highest summit on 

 the range occurs, with an elevation (aneroid) of 617 feet above the Runn. 

 Although from the greater height the section must be thicker, the same 

 varieties of rock as are found near Lodranee only occur ; massive light 

 coloured sandstones forming the bluffs, and hard fine calcareous and 

 fossiliferous bed« the southern hill-slopes. At the crest of the hill 

 some calcareous conglomeritic grits contain numerous metamorphie and 

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