92 Transactions.— Miscellaneous. 
Those sand-hills are several miles long, varying from a quarter to half 
a mile wide, and are in some places 70 to 80 fect high, with sea-beach on 
one side and large swamps and small lakes on the other. On the northern 
extremity of the ridges, Pingao (Desmoschenus ) and Spinifex grass is 
growing amongst the hills, retaining the loose sand in little heaps, so that 
no shells or other remains are visible; on the southern or Bream Head 
extremity, the ridges are bare, and the sand shifts freely, leaving in the 
saddles between the summits of sand-hills, hardened beds of yellow-coloured 
sandy soil strewn in places with sharp stones and worn pebbles. 
The sides of these sand-hills presented some beautiful examples of false 
or cross stratification and ripple in the blown sand. On the oblique face 
which these hills presented seaward, were here and there large mounds of 
pipi shells and kitchen middens. Walking down to examine the first of 
these mounds, we observed a collection of quartz pebbles, ‘‘ Moa stones.” 
We pondered over them with deep interest, feeling sure that, although all 
osseous remains may have disappeared from these older sand-hills, the 
Moa once existed here. Our conjectures were well founded and confirmed 
by the discovery of a much worn metatarus, portions of a femur, and a 
vertebre. At another similar mound a tibia was found, and at a third 
mound some fragments of tibia and femora were to be seen; also the 
portions of tibia of a small species of Moa, with proximal end tolerably 
perfect. 
Of obsidian flakes and adzes, we found none. 
We observed the remains of several human skeletons, but the bones 
were much broken and worn. Here also we found two pieces of bone 
evidently carefully bored and shaped by the hand of man (Plate III., Figs. 
No. 5, 6), and probably applied to some practical or ornamental purpose. 
I have been more careful to collect facts than to explain what they 
mean, since in every study the mastery of facts and the knowledge of their 
relation to one another is of first importance. Conclusions can always wait, 
always take care of themselves ; but now that I have described what I have 
seen, I may be allowed to point briefly to some of the more obvious ideas 
suggested, 
