NOTE ON THE GEOLOGY OF SUNDAYS RIVER. 



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the waters shal- 

 lowed towards the 

 ancient shore. That 

 the strata marked 

 4 were more even in 

 thickness, I should 

 imagine, arose from 

 their being depo- 

 sited in deeper 

 water ; the inter- 

 vening portions 

 must have once ex- 

 tended from their 

 present position to 

 the shoulders of the 

 hills mentioned ; 

 but have since been 

 denuded by the 

 same influences that 

 have formed the 

 present bed of the 

 Koega River. 



This section I 

 have looked upon 

 as a most beautiful 

 exemplification of 

 an ancient island in 

 the primeval ocean. 



Not far above us 

 arose those time- 

 worn quartzite hills 

 that had been ex- 

 posed to the scorch- 

 ing suns of un- 

 known summers — 

 summers at a period 

 so remote that num- 

 berless races have 

 appeared and dis- 

 appeared from the 

 "face of the earth 

 since their tops first 

 emerged from the 

 deep. Never since 

 that time have they 

 sunk so much as to 

 have been again 



covered by the surrounding waters, but must have remained islands 

 in the distant main when a magnificent and glorious estuary, of which 



