1858.] 



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deep section, but on the surface of the schist-country. It is regarded 

 as of marine origin by the author, and is composed of quartz, and 

 contains gold at its base. Another drift has been deposited in gullies 

 cut through the oldest drift and deep into the schists. This also is 

 auriferous, and is covered by an ancient humus, which, in the deep 

 section, is found to contain stems of trees, and to be covered over by 

 a trap-rock enclosing upright trees. This fossil wood is usually but 

 little altered in its texture and ligneous qualities ; its colour is changed 

 from that of red birch to cocoa or lignum-vitse. But some of it has 

 passed into jet ; and both the charred and the uncharred woods have 



Sketch-plan of a part of the Valley of the Tarrowee, showing the 

 relations of the ancient and the existing gullies. 





c. 

 d. 

 e. 

 /• 



Diggings. Elevation. Depth. 



1 1182 190 



2 1200 162 



3 1250 130 



4 1280 180 



5 1300 160 



6 1325 165 



7 1347 115 



8 1430 22 

 (Some other points of elevation 



are given on the plan.) 



VOL. XIV. PART I. 



Schists. b. Trap-rocks. 



Gravels, mostly diluvial and partially lacustrine. 

 Gravels, marine (?). 



Former course of the river and its branches. 

 Present river- course. 



Diggings. 



9 



Milkmaid. 



10 



Malakoff. 



11 



Nightingale. 



12 



Golden Point. 



13 



Gravel-pits. 



14 



Bakery Hill. 



15 



Canadian. 



16 



Black Hill. 



17 



Lady Berkeley 



18 



Eureka. 



2 N 



