BY T. STEPHENS. 763 



its mouth the ancient rocks that have already been mentioned 

 show themselves at intervals on the beach at low tide. Near 

 the eastern end, on an outcrop of quartzite, are masses of con- 

 glomerate with large subangular boulders of that rock. West of 

 the creek are grey schists and hard shaly sandstones alternating 

 with dark-coloured and micaceous slates and bands of quartzite. 

 The bedding of the former is somewhat obscure. They appear 

 to strike a little east of north, but a band of quartzite crops 

 out farther on, the strike of which is nearly east and west, and 

 the dip northerly. The whole country of the Rocky Cape 

 Range shows as a confused mass of lofty peaks and ridges of 

 quartzite with intervening gorges suggesting a series of anticlinal 

 and synclinal folds with a general E, and W. strike, but these 

 folds appear to have been disturbed and faulted by subsequent 

 earth-movements. The profile of the range as seen from a dis- 

 tance E. or W., seems to confirm this theory. There is, however, 

 much foliation on the line of strike (Plate xxv., fig. 2), and nothing 

 short of a lengthy and elaborate geological survey could dis- 

 criminate between the massive quartzite and the comparatively 

 thin bands of the same rock with their associated slates and 

 schists, or determine the stratigraphical relations of the whole 

 series. 



In the exposed cliff faces of the Rocky Cape Range are several 

 small caves on the lines of nearly vertical faults in the highly 

 inclined bedding planes, which have so dislocated the rock that 

 great angular flakes were easily detachable by human agency or 

 by the wash of the sea when it was at a higher level. All these 

 •caves show signs of having been occupied by the aborigines. 

 The most noticeable of them is near the north point of the cape 

 (Plate xxvii., fig. 1), in the face of a cliff about 160 feet high. It rises 

 at the entrance to a height of about 40 feet, widening downwards 

 to a breadth of 15 feet, and runs in easterly about 25 yards, 

 narrowing to 3 feet at the inner end. The floor of the cave is 

 covered to a depth of some yards with the comminuted fragments 

 of shells, among which are bones of marsupials, suggesting its 

 occupation as a winter shelter for, probably, hundreds of years. 



