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deposits of shells, which are dug and burnt for lime. As the region is 
liable to high inundations, we cannot affirm without farther examina- 
tion that the shells bear any evidence of a rise of land; yet such 
appears to be the fact. 
On the sandstone shores of Port Jackson and at the South Head, 
there are three or four terraces of rock, which apparently indicate so 
many successive efforts of elevation in a height of two hundred feet. 
But we look upon the evidence with much doubt. 
Other geological changes are indicated by the vast caverns in 
the limestone region of the Wellington Valley. Many wonderful 
facts have been brought to light, through the bones they contain, 
with reference to the ancient Fauna of this strange continent. But 
as they came not within the range of our observations, we refer to 
other works for an account of them. ‘The caves have been well 
described by Major Mitchell, and the bones and animals by Professor 
Owen. 
We close our account of New South Wales by a list of the more 
important works and memoirs illustrating its geology. 
Journal of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales, 
in 1817 and 1818, by Joun Oxtey, Surveyor-General ; 4to., 1820. 
Sketch of the Geology of the Coast of Australia, by WiLL1am Henry 
Firron ; forming an appendix to the “ Survey of the Intertropical and 
Western Coasts of Australia,” by Captain P. P. King. 
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Kastern Australia, by Major 
T. L. Mitrcuety, F.G.S., Surveyor-General, 2 vols. 8vo. London, 
1838. Contains descriptions of fossil bones from the Wellington Valley, 
by Professor Owen, with drawings; and also several species of fossil 
shells from Harper’s Hill. 
Physical Description of New South Wales and Van Diemen’s 
Land, accompanied by a geological map, sections and diagrams, and 
figures of organic remains, by P. E. pe Srrzeveckt, 8vo. London, 
1845. 
Volcanic Islands, by C. Darwin. 8vo. London, 1844; pp. 130—137, 
on New South Wales. 
On a Fossil Pine Forest at Kurrur-kurran, by the Rev. W. B. 
CuarKE, in the Geological Proceedings for 1843, iv. p. 161. 
On Marble and Quartz, in connexion with Plutonic Rock in New 
South Wales, by Rev. W. B. CLrarke; Quarterly Journ. Geol. Soc. 
No. 3, Aug. 1845, p. 342. 
