18 PEOCEEPINGS OP IHB GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [IN'oV. 8, 



Agate, various, and largely predominating ; rounded and sub- 

 angular, mostly poUshed or glazed. 

 No. 2. From CawoocVs Hope. See page 6. 



Two rolled pieces of fossil Wood. 

 No. 3. From Pniel. See page 7. 



Washed agate gravel *, containing : — 

 Lydite, rounded (pebbles). 

 Jasjier and Quartzite, subangular and much worn (more than 



in the gravel from Klip drift). 

 Possil Wood, much rolled, one piece. 

 One fragment of Quartz, off a worn crystal. 

 Agate, various ; subangular and rounded : largely predomi- 

 nating. 

 No. 4. From Pniel. See page 7. 



Some unwashed ochreous agate gravel. (Not nearly so ochreous 

 as some sent from the Klip-drift diggings by Mr. E. T. Cooper 

 and Dr. G. Grey ; ' Mining Journal,' March 4, 1871.) 

 No. 5. From Pniel. Page 7. 



A smaU weathered subangular block of light-greenish Amygda- 

 loidal Greenstone, weathering brown. 

 No. 6. From Pniel. Page 7. 



Another, similar, but of a dull-greenish tint. Both are studded 

 with chalcedonie Agates. 

 No. 7. From Klip drift. See page 7. 



A freslily broken piece of a large, rough, angular, yellowish Agate 

 of Chalcedonv and Quartz, like that from Hebron. 

 Nos. 8 & 9. From Klip-drift. Page 7. 



Washed, coarse, agate gravel f, containing : — 

 Lydite pebbles, few. 

 Jasper, some subangular pieces. 

 Micaceous Heematite, one fragment. 

 Quartz crystals ; fresh, subangular, and rolled. 

 Agate, largely predominating ; very various, including much 

 green chalcedony ; subangular and rolled J. Some of the 

 agate pebbles are very much water-worn, some glazed; and 

 some pebbles have been broken and reglazed. 

 No. 10. From Hebron. Pago 9. 



A freshly broken yellowish Agate, like that from Klip-drift 

 (No. 7). 

 No. 11. From Hebron. Page 9, 



Washed, coarse, agate gravel §, containing: — 

 One small, very round pebble of Lydite ||. 



* One small fragment of Garnet was sent -with this parcel. 



t One small subangular piece of Garnet was sent in this parcel. 



t Many of the roundest of the agate pebbles in these gravels of tlie Vaal are 

 globular agates (chalcedonie nuclei of the amygdaloids) not much rolled. 



§ A few subangular and rolled small Garnets accompanied this parcel. 



jl As in other cases, the Lydite is here much rolled by travel, and bears 

 evidence that some of the gravel (and perhaps the Diamond) has been derived 

 from the metamorphic rocks. 



