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It may, however, he that, if we take, as will be shown here- 
after, also the relations in South Africa, in India, and also in Europe, where 
in England there are certain glacial breccias in the Permian, into considera- 
tion, we shall be obliged to adopt an earlier beginning of the glacial 
phenomena in Australia and India ; or else it may be that in Australia the 
Bacchus Marsh conglomerates and the Upper Marine beds partly fall into 
the Permian Epoch, while in India the age of the conglomerates depend 
greatly on the age of the Productus limestone in the Salt llange, as will be 
explained hereafter. 
Whether the supposition of such a far-spread glaciation, or glacial 
action, is justified or not I am unable to explain or prove ; but the said con- 
glomeratic beds of the named countries show such characters, and arc 
deposited in such a manner, that the explanation of their deposition by the 
action of floating ice is almost a necessity. 
(5.) In Queensland there is above the Bobuntungen beds (Smith’s 
Creek or Stroud beds) a series of strata, which cannot so distinctly be sub- 
divided as the beds in New South Wales above the Lepidodendron beds, and 
in which there are also not described any such conglomeratic beds which 
would correspond with those in the Marine beds of New South Wales and 
the Bacchus Marsh beds ; but still there is a certain order in the sequence of 
the strata, of which the uppermost most probably represent the Newcastle 
beds of New South Wales, while the others, below, represent the £c Series of 
Marine Beds.” 
(G.) Similarly it is in Tasmania, where the entire division of the 
so-called Lower Coal Measures represents the whole series in New South 
Wales between the Ilawkesbury Bocks and the Lcpidodendron beds. This 
division then represents the Carboniferous and Permian Epoch. 
( 7 .) If we have found that the Newcastle beds of New South Wales 
and their correlations in the other provinces of Australia and Tasmania fall 
at the end of the Palaeozoic division, at about the Permian Ejioch, then 
naturally what follows above them will be of younger age, and thus these 
upper beds represent the Mesozoic division, some of them Triassic and 
Jurassic, others perhaps Jurassic only. 
If we examine the above relations somewhat closer we find the follow- 
ing interesting facts. 
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