72 ON THE TERTIARY DEPOSITS OF AUSTRALIA, 
V. anticingulata. But these fossils, it must be added, are also 
found in newer formations, such as Table Cape in Tasmania, and 
aoe Creek in Western era Poin ge es character of 
just dre aoe up ies the deep. The clay in whieh; the 
found is of a light blue or ash grey colour. Foraminifera are not 
common, at least not so common in this finely levigated mud as 
in many of the higher beds. Polyzoa are also the exception. 
Podicillate corals are, however, numerous, few of existing species, 
but of characters similar to those now livi ring in the Japanese and 
China seas. There are none peculiar to this formation, at least 
as far as the beds have been explored, and that, it must be ad- 
auld is only slightly. An undescribed Nisso, and a mpg 
ell 
ippl 
by Professor M'Co 
Above those met and not separated from them by any 
very clear line of demarcation, we find a series of different 
deposits of some thickness and very wide spread. The charac- 
teristics differ in different localities. In the aps _— 
and then westward from Cape Otway to Warrnambool, w 
with clays and muds, sometimes interca eonspe 
and a long succession of horizontal or slightly inclined stata. 
e precise number of the beds exposed has not been clearly 
ascertained, but they Se nor a very long series of —- 
and an extensive period in our tertiary geology. To the n 
of Warrnambool they are found wie a place called Hamilton, or 
as, when wells or shafts are ‘sunk to any depth, , if they pierce 
through the oe. the polyzoan limestone 
then we find outcrops of granite, but even > habe traces of the 
terti appear. Ata creek near H 
Victoria, about 600 feet above the sea, we find, on the slopes of 
on, a thin clay of a few inches thick, full o: 
ous fossils. The rh and have 
evidently owed their preservation to their ferruginous ¢ er, 
€ wherein they were on tie oe have Shieh is disa: 
