1868.] 



KINGSMILL GEOLOGY OF CHIJfA. 



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pass (750 ft.). 



Coal. 



Ankowan (village). 

 Coal-mine (closed). 



Fossils in chert. 

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their fine ink-stones. The 

 extreme upper beds are more 

 shalj, and have yielded fossils 

 both animal and vegetable. I 

 have met with but one locality 

 for each, however, — the former, 

 near Kiukiang, at the foot of 

 the Lu-shan, the latter, in the 

 Si Tungting-shan, in the Tai- 

 hu. Of the former I have col- 

 lected ; — 



Some doubtful fish-scales. 

 An Orthoceratite. 

 Two Cirri? 

 A Gryphcea. 



A smaU doubtful conchifer. 

 The above, like most of the 

 fossils of the Tungting series, 

 are excessively badly pre- 

 served. 



Of vegetable remains I have 

 noticed the following : — 



A Lepidodendron, with small 

 lozenge-shaped reticulations. 



Some stems of conifers, and 

 possibly leaves of the same. 

 A Pecopteris. 



Apparently two other forms 

 not sufficiently well marked for 

 determination. 



Fragments of leaves with 

 parallel striae. 



The vegetable remains at 

 least seem to indicate an early 

 age for the containing rock. 



These rocks, in the south of 

 China, are eminently developed 

 in the vaUey of the Si-kiang 

 or West River, which rises in 

 the frontier districts of Yun- 

 nan and Kwangsi, and, flow- 

 ing on towards the delta of 

 the Canton river, disembogues 

 finally at the western side of 

 the island on which is situated 

 the Portuguese settlement of 

 Macao. Mr. Bickmore describes 

 them likewise as forming the 

 foundation rock in the valley 

 of the Kweikiang or Cassia 



