176 Mr. Bain on the Geology of Southern Africa. 



region, but that the map, such as it is, is the result of the labours of a self-taught 

 individual, thirty-six years of whose life have been spent in the arid wastes of 

 Southern Africa, entirely cut off from participation in the advantages of a civilized 

 country ; and the results of his labours, consisting of a Geological Map of South 

 Africa, with three general, and five local Sections, nineteen cases of fossil 

 remains, transmitted in 1847, and four cases of fossils*, now sent, the author re- 

 spectfully offers for the acceptance of the Geological Society of London. Another 

 extensive collection, made on the Caledon and Orange Rivers, was unfortunately 

 lost amidst the turmoils of the Kaffir war. 



The author proceeds to describe the different Rock-formations of the Colony, as 

 they present themselves along the lines of the several Sections (see Plate XXL) ; 

 reserving, however, the consideration of the extensive Reptiliferous deposits, pre- 

 sented in the southern portion of each section, until the other formations have 

 been treated of. The general arrangement and relations of the formations here 

 referred to are exhibited in the diagram at page 178.] 



[The following list of authors comprises, first, several of the travellers who have more 

 especially noticed the geological structure of the Cape and of other parts of South Africa ; 

 and, secondly, the geologists who have supplied more definite information on the rocks and 

 fossils of that region : — 



1801. J. Barrow. An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa, in the years 



1797 and 1798. 4° London, 1801. 

 1810. In Wilson's 'History of Mountains' (4° London), vol. iii. pp. 727-748, will be found a 



full resume of the geological facts noticed in Barrow's ' Travels in Southern Africa,' 



above alluded to, and other older works relating to Cape Town and its vicinity. 

 1812. H. Lichtenstein. Travels in Southern Africa in 1803 and 1806. (Translated by A. 



Plumptre.) 4° London, 1812. 



1818. C. J. Latrobe. Journal of a Visit to South Africa in 1815 and 1816. 4° London, 1818. 



1819. Clarke Abel. Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, and of a Voyage to and 



from that Country in the years 1816 and j817 (p. 285, &c. Table Mountain, &c.). 

 4° London, 1819. 



* Of the extensive suite of specimens here referred to, the fine collection of reptilian remains, with the 

 rock-specimens and a series of the tertiary, secondary, and palaeozoic fossils, have been transferred to the 

 British Museum ; and another series of the fossils has been placed in the Museum of Practical Geology. 

 The description of the palaeozoic and secondary fossils has been kindly undertaken by Mr. D. Sharpe and 

 Mr. Salter, whose communications on the subject follow Mr. Bain's paper ; and we may soon look for 

 detailed accounts of some at least of the reptilian remains from the pen of Prof. Owen. — Ed. 



