26 Notes on some Evidences of 



same side as Day's Creek, opens out into two branches, 

 each taking its rise in the Dividing Range to the east of 

 Omeo. Along their present courses deposits of heavy water- 

 worn (dyke stone) boulders are frequent, some of which are 

 beautifully striated, particularly the diabase and micro- 

 porphyrites; while on the points of rocky spurs on its 

 northern slopes are some distinct groovings at an eleva- 

 tion of sixty feet above the present creek bed. On the 

 opposite side of the Livingstone Creek, where this creek 

 joins it, is a deep hollow, worn to a lower level than the 

 former, and filled with immense masses of igneous basaltic 

 rock (large waterworn boulders), many of which exceed eight 

 feet in diameter. These are overlaid by smaller boulders of 

 the various igneous and metamorphic rocks of the valley 

 in a stiff clay, with occasional thick deposits of pipe clay 

 and auriferous gravels. The bed rock is shattered and 

 broken, and in some ]3laces rammed with hard quartzose 

 and igneous boulders of smaller dimensions for a foot below 

 the surface. In following the creek upwards from this point 

 these immense igneous boulders are seen to form a con- 

 tinuous line for fully 100 chains (where exposed by the 

 gold workings), and seem to me to represent the products 

 of a lateral moraine extending from Mount Livingstone, 

 where a large glacier filled the valley. A short distance up 

 the creek from this point, where the road to Bingomunjie 

 leaves the Livingstone, a very large mass of andesite igneous 

 rock, fully ten feet in diameter, and with the lower side flat- 

 tened and planed down, is seen to rest on a friable yellow 

 clay, the latter crammed with angular and rounded rock 

 fragments — a veritable still, the igneous boulder being sur- 

 rounded and overlaid by auriferous gravels, bouldery wash 

 and clays. A mile higher up, on the eastern margin of these 

 deposits, and also on the east side of the Livingstone Creek, 

 is situate the township of Omeo. The gold workings in 

 situ afford excellent means of studying the relation of 

 the different materials filling up the old lake-bed. The 

 section across these deposits at Dry Hill, about a mile 

 west from Omeo, is given. . These deposits have been cut 

 through by a small western affluent — Dry Gully. There is 

 a basin-shaped hollow near its source,. below some auriferous 

 quartz veins, which is also filled up with a deposit of 

 heavy boulders, clays, and auriferous gravels, known as 

 Power's Gully, at an elevation of 900 feet above the Dry 

 Hill area. 



