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applied in the investigation of the Tesseba, the Coodradigbee, the 

 Fi»h River, and some Abercrombie caves. 



Mr. Wintle has more recently distinguished himself by another 

 discovery. At the height of from three to four thousand feet, on 

 Mount Wellington, near Hobart Town, he found in the rocks of 

 considerable antiquity vegetable fossils named Mndogeni-phyllites 

 (i.e. an endogen plant) by Professor M'Coy ; an occurrence of 

 some interest, inasmuch as endogenous plants have only hitherto 

 been found in formations not older than the upper Cretaceous 

 whereas the particular beds on Mount Wellington may be 

 Palaeozoic. Prom Mr. Wintle, I received the specimens now 

 produced. 



The occurrence of endogenous plants in such deposits seems, 

 however, to be no greater anomaly than many other occurrences 

 in the distribution of fossil plants recently noticed, such as Aus- 

 tralian forms in the upper cretaceous beds of Aix-la-Chapelle. 



Since I read the papers in our Transactions " On the auriferous 

 and other metalliferous districts of Northern Queensland," I 

 have learnt some interesting particulars from my two friends, Mr. 

 Daintree and Mr. Aplin, which I may be allowed to mention. 

 It is satisfactory to me to be able to state, that the places indi- 

 cated by me in those papers have been found to realise the 

 expectations I had formed ; and this is particularly the case with 

 M'Kinlay's range, and the country at the head of the Burdekin, 

 where gold is now being found. And from my friend Mr. Lands- 

 borough, the President on the Gulf of Carpentaria, I learn that 

 there is every prospect of the future prosperity of that distant 

 region. 



There are, certain remarkable differences between the 

 gold-fields of Queensland and some of those in the Southern 

 colonies. Notwithstanding the surprising richness of much of 

 the quartz on the Mary River, it would appear that the lodes or 

 reefs do not occur generally as in Victoria, and parts of New 

 South "Wales in slates of the Silurian epoch, but in diorite or amidst 

 granite. Moreover, the strike of the lodes is occasionally 

 rectangled to those just named, being then from east to west, 

 instead of from north to south. 



