by: T. STEPHENS. 761 



from above through the dense uncleared bush is barred by the 

 matted vegetation which clothes the almost precipitous face of 

 the hillside. At a little bay west of the Cape the junction of 

 the two rocks and the difference between them is more clearly 

 seen. Whether the Tertiary beds abut against or pass under the 

 Cape is an open question. 



[Since the occurrence of this Tertiary formation was reported 

 by the writer, its fossil contents and surroundings have been more 

 •or less fully described or examined by Messrs. R. M. Johnston, 

 R. A. Montgomery, A. E. Kitson of Melbourne, and the late Pro- 

 fessor Tate of Adelaide, and probably by others; and the general 

 conclusion appears to be that the fossils are of Eocene, or at any 

 rate of early Tertiary type. With reference to the Cyprcea 

 eximia described by Sowerby, and figured in Count Strzelecki's 

 book, the fossil is there stated, on information supplied to the 

 author, to have been found " in a muddy sand in sinking a well 

 at Franklin's Village, about fifteen miles from the sea." As 

 Franklin Village, on the main road between Launceston and 

 Perth, is at least forty miles from the sea, and there is no trace 

 of any marine formation anywhere in the neighbourhood, it is 

 pretty clear that the information supplied as to the history of 

 the fossil was incorrect. No other locality is known up to the 

 present time where such a fossil could have been found but the 

 Ereestone Bluff beds, and the probability is that, some time in 

 the early forties, both this Cyprcea, and the fossil marsupial 

 recently described by Professor Baldwin Spencer under the name 

 of Wynyardia bassiana, were brought from there by one of the 

 officers of the Van Diemen's Land Company, who alone at that 

 time had access to this part of the coast. 



All uncertainty as to the true character of the coarsely crystal- 

 line igneous rock which forms the headland of Table Cape, and 

 occurs in a similar position at Circular Head, has been removed 

 by the result of an examination of specimens from both places 

 by Professor Rosenbusch. This is recorded in a paper read 

 before the Royal Society of Tasmania on 1st December, 1902, 



