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nations of sand and arenaceous clay of light-grey and drab colours, the 
different layers not well defined. No hard sandstone layers crop out, and 
the whole of the beds are of a very soft and unconsolidated nature. A 
seam of impure lignite, two feet in thickness, occurs. It is soft, brown in 
colour, and holds much sandy matter. Selenite crystals are abundant, and 
some thin layers of ironstone are also found. The whole appears to be 
quite horizontal, and the thickness more or less perfctiy displayed, must 
be over 150 feet. 
247. The remainder of the sections from this point to Wood Moun- 
tain do not present any features of much interest, and resemble pretty 
closely that just desgribed. Yellowish-grey, greyish, whitish, and drab, 
soft arenaceous clays, and sandstones, appear with unvarying monotony 
in all the scarped banks of the vallies, which here ramify in every direc- 
tion. No fossils, except the badly preserved remains of plants, were 
found, nor were lignites of any importance observed, though some of the 
men on a hunting excursion, some miles south of the road, brought back 
samples of a fair quality. 
