CHAPTER XIII. 
PLACES OF GEOLOGICAL INTEREST IN THE 
VICINITY OF SYDNEY AND THE BLUE 
MOUNTAINS. 
PLACES NEAR SYDNEY KIAMA — NEWCASTLE AND MAIT- 
LAND — THE MOUNTAINS — BATHURST, ORANGE, AND MO- 
LONG. 
A geological student resident in Sydney may visit, 
without travelling too far, many interesting and 
instructive localities. Good sections of the Wiana- 
matta Shales may be seen in any of the many brick - 
pits at St. Peters. Sections of the Hawkesbury Sand- 
stones can be studied almost anywhere along the coast 
from South Head to Botany. Capital examples of 
current bedding can be seen wherever the sandstone is 
exposed, and there is no dearth of exposures, for it has 
been remarked, with truth, that Sydney stands on a 
“wilderness of stone-quarries.” Almost any of the 
quarries are worth a visit. But, perhaps, more can be 
learned at Saunders’ Quarries, at the foot of Harris - 
street, than elsewhere. A magnificent bed 40 feet in 
thickness is quarried here. The sandstones rest on 
shales containing fossil plants. A basaltic dyke may 
be noted, cutting up through the sandstones. 
