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tion last referred to, reaching 53? in a direction south, 20° 
west. The dip of these banded shales preserves a consistent 
direction to some point between west and south-south-west. 
Half-way through Section 44 the “slates” weather on the 
bedding planes, and split into fine lamine, whilst at the 
same time exhibiting cleavage planes. The dip is here to- 
wards the south-south-west, at 28°, but within a short dis- 
tance the dip becomes 76? west, and the bedding planes 
are extremely wavy and finely contorted. At the beginning 
of Section 857 the beds assume an almost horizontal posi- 
tion, and then are reversed to south-south-east, at 20°. They 
roll, in gentle curves, for a short distance, and then pass 
out of sight under the Glacial (Cambrian) Till, with a dip of 
30° in the direction last named. The junction of these beda 
occurs between Sections 857 and 856, at a point in the river 
where two small tributaries, one on either side of the valley, 
enter at right angles to the main stream. This occurrence 
of the till, in a position superior to the Tapley's Hill slates, 
is manifestly a reversal in which the older beds have broken 
through and slid over the newer in a thrust plane of a quar- 
ter of a mile exposure. The entire plane of displacement 
cannot be estimated, but a mile higher up the stream the 
base of the glacial beds is seen to rest in a normal manner on 
the laminated quartzites in the true order of succession. 
V. SOUTHERN EXTENSION OF THE CALCAREOUS SERIES. 
It has already been stated that, in Section 75, the beds are 
cut off by a dip fault. From this point southwards, along 
the strike of the beds, the country is largely covered with 
tertiary deposits of loose sand, ferruginous sand, grits, and 
gravels, which almost entirely mask the older beds. That 
these tertiary deposits include the marine Eocenes, in some 
localities, is proved by characteristic fossils of this age being 
found on cultivated ground belonging to Mr. A. Oliver, of 
Taranga Farm, situated one and a half miles north of Belle- 
vue. Stones carrying numerous casts of Turritella aldingæ 
are turned up by the plough, and have been in sufficient 
quantity to supply the material for building the farm house. 
Notwithstanding the blinding of the older rocks by these 
superficial deposits, the Cambrian limestone outerops in Mr. 
W. Oliver's vineyard (Section 85). The stone is a good, strong 
limestone, and has been used for building a very substantial 
house on the grounds. 
The eastern limits of outcrop of these calcareous beds 
. passes a little west of Bellevue. In the creek behind Belle- 
vue, earthy shales are exposed in a low face, with a dip east- 
south-east, аб 45^. The western limits of the calcareous belt, 
