342 W. B. Clarke on the Sedimentary 
age, there are beds of grit, sandstone, and conglomerate, oceu- 
pying positions of extreme doubtfulness as to : age, not only in 
Victoria, but also all along the coast ranges of New South 
Wales, which, as described by me, and confirmed by Mr. Dain- 
tree, are certain y older than some parts of the pete a ous 
formation, They make a near approach to the “Old Red” of 
Europe. In my Report to the Government of New South Wales 
(6th March, 1852), I have mentioned that I had traced these 
beds ‘“ from the head of the Shoalhaven to the head of the 
Genoa ;” and Mr, Daintree, in his Report to Mr. Selwyn, Di- 
rector of the Victorian Survey (26th May, 1863) , adopts my 
description, word for word, as applicable to “the Gra mpian 
sandstones, the conglomerates south of Mount Macedon, of the 
von river and Tambo, Gipps’s Land ;” and he adds, “there 
can be little doubt they are all members of one great formation.” 
At Mount Tambo, according to Mr. Selwyn (1866), they 
underlie the limestone of that locality, which he therefore con- 
siders as probably Carboniferous ; and this, as stated above, 
was my view in 18 
About Eden. (Twotold Bay), and Panbula and Merrimbula, 
go the north, there occur a series of beds which, in 1851, I also 
: as Devonian ; but, on visiting the district in 1865, I 
was inclined to think they ‘might be much older. N evertheless, 
they are connected with Porphyries, with double-headed hexa- 
hedral crystals of quartz, which are common in countries as- 
sumed to be of the age of “Old Red. ” After all, there will 
have to be an adjustment of this and other questions, which 
may hereafter distribute very differently parts of formations 
which at present are considered fix 
In Western Australia, Mr. H. Gregory indicated on his map, 
and in his Report, the existence of Devonian rocks near York, 
and in other parts of that colony. Having examined the 
rocks so indicated, I can only state my belief that they have no 
a to any ‘sach antiquity, and are probably mere col- 
lections of loose granitic matter and other drift cemented by 
ferruginous paste, which has since become transmuted into 
coneretionary nodules and hematite. There are also pebbles 
- a much decomposed, in the so-called Devonian. 
Baton ce. Uprrer Pa.nozoic. 
i tis Aivision of rocks is fairly represented in New 
iS be no dispute. It has been long deter- 
logists, that ‘the ower Carboniferous 
r beds a 
