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(2 metres) thick and occurs at a height of 186 feet (58 metres) 

 above sea-level. 



Above this is a very sandy grey shale, which prob- 

 ably continues up to a height of at least 270 feet (85 metres). 

 This deposit yielded no fossils. 



At a height of 300 feet (94 metres), a sheet of basalt, 

 10 feet (3 metres) thick, occurs which, at the end of the ravine, 

 is overlain by a yellow sandstone , 6 feet (2 metres) in thick- 

 ness. The latter appears in some places as a typical sandstone 

 and in others it approaches in nature rather an impure clay- 

 shale. As regards fossils, it contains only a few carbonised 

 plant-remains. This sandstone is the uppermost deposit at 

 Cape Stewart. Further inland, sedimentary beds could be seen 

 cropping out in various places. 



All the beds of Cape Stewart and, generally speaking, 

 those of Neill's Cliffs as well, are dipping at an angle of 6°, 

 in a direction 50° west of south. 



Continuing along Hurry's Inlet in a northerly direction, 

 Neill's Cliffs rise higher and higher, this being due partly to 

 the position of the beds, but also probably to the fact that 

 several other beds appear, both above and below those already 

 described. 



The expedition landed about south-west of the Fame Is- 

 lands (see p. 169). Here, the lowest bed exposed is a kind of 

 shale, which frequently assumes the nature and appearance of 

 a sandstone. Above this, and at a height of about 1000 feet 

 (314 metres) above sea-level, appears once more the fossiliferous 

 limestone , which here becomes conglomeratic or brecciated 

 both upwards and downwards, the middle part being a fairly 

 pure limestone. Above this is a shale, then a yellowish-grey 

 sandstone, then basalt, at a height of about 1300 feet (408 

 metres), and above this come alternating layers of sandstone 

 and dolerite. It is evident that several beds occur here, which 



