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striated, and grooved rock surface, presenting every indication of 
glacial action. The bank of the creek showed a section of clay and 
coarse gravel or drift, composed of fragments of all sizes, irregularly 
imbedded through the day. The direction of the grooves and scratches 
is east and west in parallel lines ; and though they follow the course 
of the stream, I do not think that they could have been produced by 
the action of water, forcing pebbles and boulders detached from the 
drift along the bed of the stream. This is the first and only instance 
of the kind I have met with in Australia, and it at once attracted my 
attention, strongly reminding me of the similar markings I had so 
frequently observed in the mountain valleys of North Wales.” 
In 1860 the Rev. W. B. Clarke recorded evidence of ice-action at 
the Muniong (somewhere on the boundary between Victoria and New 
South Wales, on or near the Evosciusko Plateau). # “Probably in 
earlier times glaciers did form, for I saw more than one unmistakable 
bloc perch e, a mass resting on upturned edges of strata.” 
The credit of having been the first to place on record evidence of 
past glacial action in Victoria belongs undoubtedly to a former Agent- 
General of this colony and its first Government Geologist, Sir Richard 
Daintree. 
Previous to his appointment as Government Geologist for 
Queensland, Sir Richard (then Mr.) Daintree served for many years 
as one of the field geologists to the Government of Victoria. One of 
his latest works before leaving Victoria for Queensland was to 
construct, in collaboration with Mr. C. 8. Wilkinson, the late 
Government Geologist of New 8outh Wales, a geological map and 
sections of the Bacchus Marsh District. 
As Mr. Daintree’s Report is now very scarce, I may be excused 
for quoting at length from the original, in which he briefly summarises 
the principal geological features of this now famous district.f 
The following is an extract (op. cit pp. 10-1 1) : — 
“ What is seen in this road cutting is exposed on a larger scale 
near Darley, where blocks of granite, with large crystals of red 
felspar, in some instances a ton weight, are found imbedded in a 
matrix of soft mud. 
“Then, again, we have masses of conglomerate, composed almost 
of rounded pebbles ; but in all cases a large proportion of these 
are pebbles of porphyries, red granites, jasperoid rocks, and sometimes 
of true mica-schist. 
“The nearest mica-schist of which we have any knowledge is on 
a branch of the Glenelg River. Porphyries in dykes are in the 
Lerderberg Ranges; but the peculiar characters of some of the granites 
are unknown in Victoria. * # * 
“ Page and other authors have suggested ice-action — probably 
icebergs ; and this would meet the difficulty at once. # * # 
“ As the lower Mesozoic age of these beds has been assumed by 
Professor McCoy on the European analogies of the only distinct 
* “ Researches in the Southern Goldfields of New South Wales.” Second edition. 
Sydney, 18G0, p. 225. 
f “ Geological Survey of Victoria : Report on the Geology of the District of 
Ballan, including Remarks on the Age and Origin of Gold, &c.,” by Richard Daintree* 
late Field Geologist. By authority : Melbourne, 180G. 
