ENTRAL ith bagilow scrub ; but where they are “pastes pre Duss are 
most cases, the soil is v ery rich. Beyond Emerald a basaltic 
Tran, terrace raises the table-land to 800 Soaty, and at Wi 15, miles 
or quartzite terrace raises it to 1,000 feet. The dices bears the: 
naki 
name of Anakie nge, Basaltie rocks of a modern aspect 
succeed. ay Blackfellows Creek, 205 miles, the basin is below. 
900 feet, but 8 miles further the elevation of Woodbine Creek is’ 
950 feet. Zamia Range is crossed at 217 miles (1,180 feet). 
The Medway Creek, 228 miles, is 1,220 feet above the sea-level, 
and then the rise is abrupt by escarpments of carboniferous rocks 
to the sites nd Range, which probably average 2,000 feet 
nee the se 
In more sbi one place in eg this distance lower carboniferous 
marine fossils are found, many of the species being identical with 
those found in the equivalent beds of Europe. At about 10 miles 
from Rockhampton, in what is called the agricultural area, careful 
collections were made by Mr. Charles de. Vis, B.A., Curator of — | 
the Brisbane Museum. The locality is extremely rich in fossils, 
and the zeal and industry of the gentleman named were such that 
of these were kindly submitted to me for examination, and es 
propose, as soon as my other engagements will permit, to publish 
the results am not as yet able to state the relative positions 
of these marine fossils and plant-bearing beds. Between them 
there occurs the Boomer Range, with Baer pigise highly 
We 
are so overlaid by recent volcanic rocks that it is eaten to sipaee rach 
to find the relations setae them and enciy strata of the a RG. 
' Range. 
Hisceceia ; 
Mr. Winxinson, the Government. Holga 3 remarked that the “sy 
fossils were exactly like those found at the Lachlan, in the Forbes 
district, and the occurrence of this formation inthe locali y 
described by Mr. Tenison-Woods w. as of especial interest, as 
rocks were met with, because they were an pletion of the forma- 
“ tion referred to, in which coal exists in other parts of the wane 
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_ deseribed by Mr. Tenison-Woods. was important when these ran 
