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exhibit the more complete silicification, as in the case of ing 
fine gravel; the coarser gravels are frequently strong y 
NEAR CAPE ; 
I am indebted to Mr. G. A. Payne, late Head Keeper at 
Cape Banks Lighthouse, for a number of interesting objects 
that he has collected from the beach in that locality. The 
more interesting of these comprise pumice, scoriaceous lava, 
torbanite, asphaltum, and native resin. 
PUMICE. 
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example of its kind, greyish-white in colour, rough to the 
feel, open and vesicular in Structure, with numerous large, 
elongated vesicular gas spaces. The central portion of ^ 
second specimen, also forwarded by Mr. Payne, has precise y 
the same features. The specimens in each case occurred on 
the southern side of Cape Banks, and were found high hs 
~ among the sand ills, where, Mr. Payne thinks, they m 
- have been buried for years. ite 
| © oceurrence of drift-pumice in this locality was quit 
unexpected and is difficult to explain. Although the 
Millicent: and Mount Gambier volcanic fields are not very 
distant from Cape ; j :, a pumice is known to occur on 
. either of these fields, and if there was, there is at present i 
fanning water that might account for their transportation to 
_ the coast. Neither is pumice known to occur along the 
