34 Coast Line Formation of the Western Bistrict. 



lines have been formed in succession between Tower Hill 

 and Belfast, and that in all probability there is now a fourth 

 in course of formation ; whilst at Warrnambool the outliers 

 of rock are but the original dunes partially dissolved and 

 cemented together by the volumes of vapour and of rain 

 either ejected from or induced by the action of Tower Hill 

 in remote times ; and lastly, from the vast preponderance 

 of Tower Hill out-throws existing in greater quantity 

 and to a much greater distance in an easterly and south- 

 easterly than in any other direction, that meteorological 

 conditions under circumstances of great atmospheric disturb- 

 ance were in remote times the same as at present — and if in 

 times of great disturbance of which we have evidence, then 

 also in periods of comparative repose, and hence climatic 

 conditions over very remote periods were the same as now. 



Akt. VII. — Notes on the Recent Earthquake. 

 By E. L. J. Ellery, Esq., F.R.S., F.R.A.S. 



[Read 12th July, 1877.] 



