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conglomerate, which by its characters strongly reminds ns of a similar one in 
theTalchir Group in India. He writes (p. 15) : — “ In several ol the localities 
above enumerated thick masses of conglomerate are associated with the sand- 
stone. They occur generally towards the base of the series, and arc composed 
of a very irregular aggregation of rounded pebbles and occasionally angular 
or subangular fragments of all sizes of granite, greenstone, or diorite, various 
porphyries, hard slate, gritty-sandstone, grey quartz-rock, and quartz. These 
pebbles or fragments are embedded either in a soft sometimes earthy mass, 
showing little or no trace of stratification as at Darley, near Bacchus Marsh, 
&c.” He writes further (p. 16) : — “ The character of the conglomerate beds 
before mentioned, near Darley and on the Wild Duck Creek, is such as almost 
to preclude the supposition of their being due to purely aqueous transport 
and deposition. It is, however, very suggestive of the results likely to be 
produced by marine glacial transport ; and the mixture of coarse and fine, 
angular and waterworn material, much of which has clearly been derived 
from distant sources, would also favour this supposition. Grooved or ice- 
scratclied pebbles or rock fragments have, however, not yet been observed.” 
In the table of formations, which we find at the end of the above 
work, the Bacchus Marsh beds are placed between Permian and Trias. So 
much appears at least certain, that they arc higher than the Avon Sandstones 
with the Lepidodcndron, that they contain a peculiar conglomerate and leaves 
of the genus Ganyamopteris, M Coy. Besides the above, Upper Mesozoic 
beds are also described. 
(5.) 1866. Daintree (R.) Eeport on the Geology of the District of Ballan. F‘ cap. Melbourne , 
I860. ( Government Printer .) 
Also in this Report we find similarly, as in the preceding work, the 
description of a peculiar conglomerate. 
(6.) 1874-75. M‘Coy (Prof. F.) Prodromus of the Paleontology of Victoria. Decades I and 
II. P. 8 vo. Melbourne, 1S74-1875. ( Government Printer). 
Prof. M‘Coy described and illustrated in these two volumes the follow- 
ing fossil plants, from — 
(a) Palaeozoic rocks, below the Carbonaceous (apparently Lower 
Carboniferous) : — 
Lcpidodendron cmstrale, M c Coy. Avon River, Gippsland. 
(b) Lower Mesozoic beds : — 
Ganqamopteris anqiistifolia, M‘Coif, \ ^ 
17 1 71 , , ’ _ J /Bacchus Marsh Sandstone, 
„ spcithulata, IP Coy, ;■ 
71 . ^ \ Bacchus Marsh. 
obhquci, M Coy, J 
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