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Creek, and these, interbedded with flags and quartzites, 

 represent a series some hundreds of feet in thickness. 



Leaving the ''Dairy," going east, the road follows the 

 creek, taking the rise of the "Big Hill," showing, in suc- 

 cession, for about a mile, shales (dip 45°); blue limestone, 

 seen in croek; shales (dip 15°-20°); limestone (dip 15°); 

 calcareous grits (dip 15°-20°). The road reaches its greatest 

 elevation between the Gorge and Blinman at the north turn, 

 or bend, known as the "Big Hill," or the "Seven-mile Hill" 

 (measured from Blinman). At this point there is a reef of 

 iron and lime carbonates crossing the road. The Seven-mile 

 Hill is chiefly marked by quartzites, 100 ft. in thickness, 

 with a dip S.W. at from 10° to 15°. [Top-bed (?) calcium- 

 carbonate.] On the eastern side of the "Big Hill" is the 

 "Snake Bend," and at 6| miles from Blinman, an arenaceous 

 limestone, 5 ft. 6 in. in thickness, interbedded with flaggy 

 quartzites, occurs. At 6 miles from Blinman, a small quarry 

 is worked in a siliceous limestone, by the side of the road : 

 dip S.W. at 35°. The stone is used for road metal. 



II. Hoene's Camp. 



On the evening of the first day out I reached a spot 

 known as "Home's Camp," situated on a creek, tributary to 

 Parachilna Creek, (^) that crosses the road about 4 miles to 

 the westward of Blinman. A party of Government "road- 

 men" was camped on the creek, with whom I found accom- 

 modation for the night, and spent the following day examining 

 the creeks in the locality. 



Facing the camp, from the southward, is a long escarp- 

 ment that follows the strike and has the appearance of a great 

 rampart giving a clear exposure of the beds. The latter 

 consist of argillaceous and arenaceous flags that split per- 

 fectly on the bedding planes. They can also be studied in 

 the creek banks, near the camp. Here bluish quartzites with 

 partings of softer material outcrop with a dip S., and 

 S. 20° E. at 30°. Followed the creek, downwards. At 

 about 400 yards from the camp, a 4-ft. banded limestone 

 occurs that splits up easily into flags. At two-thirds of a 

 mile, in the same direction, dark-coloured fissile flags occur, 

 much like Willunga "slate," having a dip S.W. at 20°. 

 Here the stream that I was following joined a larger creek 

 which came in from the east. At three-quarters of a mile 

 from the above junction, going down stream, a quartzite is 

 met with, 50 ft. in thickness,' passing in its upper portions 



(3) The Pastoral Map on which is shown the two creeks referred 

 to is entirelj" unreliable as to their respective directions. 



