Olier (las Felilen des Rhiit etc. 
R41 
(1 e c k e 11 f ö r in i g- n ii iii i 1 1 e 1 h a r auf dem Rio d o K a s t o - 
Sandstein lagert'. Wir liaben liier also ein erstes An- 
‘ Whitk (.s, p. 217) sclireibt hierüber: . on tlie .Atlantic coast 
at Torres, . . . tlie red beds of the Rio do Rasio groiip occur a few feet 
above tide level directly beneath a great sheet of diabase mucli of which 
is amygdaloidal. . . . Whetlier or not the rarboniferous (permish [\Va.]) 
beds underlie the sea at Torres on below the Rio do Rasto beds or 
whether the latter have here transgressed eastward and rest upon the 
granite, nothing but the drill can decide.“ 
