Remarks on a Tertiary Deposit, fyc. 85 



the slightest doubt but that they may be all brought to habits 

 of industry and civilization, when the mode of obtaining 

 potatoes and wheat ..... 



country is generally . . open, flat, champaign 



country, with abundance of verdure, and well watered. It 

 far exceeds my expectations, although I was prepared to 

 expect something very superior. I consider the representa- 

 tions of Mr. Batman fully borne out, and from the account 

 given by Buckley, I am disposed to believe 



I this day 

 settlement at Port Phillip, having taken a trip over in the 

 " Adelaide " with some of my sheep ; I found the young 

 woman before spoken of living at the settlement with her 

 husband and his other wives. She had quite recovered from 

 the contusion, and her husband was again reconciled to her.* 



Art. X. — Remarks on a Tertiary Deposit in South Aus- 

 tralia. By the Rev. Julian Edmund Woods, Penola, 

 South Australia. 



[Read before the Institute, 29th September, 1858.] 



I propose in this paper to describe briefly to the Institute 

 a tertiary formation, which is only interesting inasmuch as it 

 furnishes clear evidence of immense changes occurring in 

 this continent during the tertiary epoch. I have chosen it 

 as a subject for the facility of its description, and because its 

 leading features can be done justice to within moderate limits. 

 There are no fossils to be described, nor any difficult arrange- 



* The Editor hopes that the thread of the narrative will be pursued, 

 notwithstanding the many spaces that exist. Each space represents the 

 proportionate amount of text wanting. — J. M., Ed. 



