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But as they occur on the plateau or table-land above the Turon, 

 that river has had nothing to do with the accumulation and deposit. 

 They must owe their transport to some cause of wider operation than 



a river. 



Section of Wattle Flat {a dead level), head of Oaky Creek above 

 the Turon River, New South Wales. 





Gold 

 and 2. 

 Bones. 



ft. ft. in. (No. 6.) 



1 to 1 ^ \ Whitish-grey, felspathic, sandy marl, exter- 

 nally like chalk. 



(No. 5.) 

 Sandy clay, with ferruginous patches and peb- 

 bles of ironstone; also cubes of black pyrites. 



(No. 4.) 

 - Q J Highly micaceous, marly, and sandy clay, with 

 1 small pebbles. 



(No. 3.) 

 Brown unctuous clay, with small shingle of 

 ironstone ; trap and red quartz breccia. 



(No. 2.) 



r Buflf-coloured clay, with pebbles of trap, iron- 



g J stone, and quartz. This is the " washing- 



I stuff" of the diggers, and contains gold. 



I The position of the bones is seen in the sketch. 



(No. 1.) 

 " Bed " or underlying rock, a decomposing, 

 ferruginous, siliceous trap, filled with minute 

 cubes of black striated pyrites. 



The occurrence of fossil remains of extinct gigantic animals of 

 living genera is now known to be a much more general phsenomenon 

 in Australia than it was supposed to be. Besides at the Condamine, 

 Wellington, and Boree, and Mount Macedon in Victoria, I have lately 

 had evidence of their existence in various other places, such as at 

 the head of the Coodradigbee River ; on the Murrembidgee ; on the 

 Turon ; at Mudgee on the Cudgegong River ; on Terabeile Creek, 

 a water of the Namoi basin, where they occur in enormous abundance 



