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brachiopods, etc. The same general strata are also exposed 

 in the low cliff along the shore on the north side of the 

 railway. 



In the next rock cut are exposed crumpled dark slates 

 accompanied by torn bands of fine sandstone. A short 

 distance further, a small rock cut passes through dark 

 greenish slates with very thin beds of sandstone. 



To the south of the railway, the same general strata are 

 exposed with a general strike towards the northeast but 

 faulted, crumpled and closely folded. On the shore, to 

 the north of the railway, the shaly strata are also crumpled 

 and torn. 



In the small quarry on the north side of the railway at 

 Young point, is exposed a face of dark slates interbedded 

 with sandstone bands carrying fossils, Lingulepis roberti 

 is the common fossil. The strata are bent into an anti- 

 clinal fold. On the higher slopes of the hill, above the 

 quarry opening, are outcrops of greenish slate and in places, 

 coarse and fine sandstone beds some of which are fossil- 

 iferous. The strata are much disturbed. In places they 

 are minutely crumpled; in other places they lie in small 

 folds whose axes are separated by intervals of 5 feet to 10 

 feet (1-5 to 3 m.). The strike is, as before, fairly constant 

 and follows a general northeast course. 



At Young point there is a small quarry in Carboniferous 

 limestone, which fills a depression in the eroded surface of 

 the highly tilted Cambrian shales. Similar pockets of 

 Mississippian limestone with fossils occur on the eastern 

 side of the valley south of the railway near George River 

 station and elsewhere. The limestone is fossiliferous and 

 at Young point, mingled with the Carboniferous types are 

 Cambrian forms derived from the underlying strata. 

 The following note has been prepared by J. E. Hyde: — 



"The following species have been obtained from the 

 Windsor limestone resting on the old land surface near 

 George River station, at Young point and in the two small 

 quarries back of the station. Those species which are 

 marked with an asterisk (*) are the more characteristic 

 of the faunule, although only one, Dielasma sacculus, is 

 very abundant. By far the greater part of these species 

 were obtained at Young point but the limestone at the two 

 other pockets carry the same fauna, in so far as it is 

 developed. Six of the 12 species have not been observed in 

 the Point Edward or Sydney section, namely i, 6, 7, 8, 9, 

 and II " 



