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Aa opinion has been nclopted that the Afesozoic fossils from 
Queensland, both those described hj Mr. Moore and these by 
Mr. Etheridge, were in mere drifted nodules. Mr. Taylor 
assures me that such is not the case with the latter, and I long 
ago gave a section of tlie beds at Wollumbilla, proving as in tho 
York Peninsula, that the nodular masses were derived from a soft 
shale, being in fact concretions. If they have been drifted they 
have not travelled far. 
Mr. Taylor (Ilann's I^ejwrt, p. 13) seems to have found the 
shelly deposit before mentioned on ‘‘a dat-topped Carboniferous 
range,” (on 0 Sept., 1S72), and by a report of April, 1875, from 
Cook Town, it appears that a fine seam of bituminoms coal has 
been discovered at the junction of Oaky Creek and the Endea- 
vour Eiver, 20 miles from Cook To\y7i f but from the determina- 
tion of Mr. Carruther.s, this coal (confirming, however, Air. 
Taylor’s statement) is not of the Glossoptcris age. Tho coal of 
the latter series is not known to extend further north than 
20° 35^ south. 
I]i Mr. Dalrymplc's Eeport of his Exploration on tlic “ North- 
east coast of Queensland” {Brishane^ 1873, p, 20.) that enter- 
pidsing observer states tliat the fiat-topped ranges and mountains 
about the Endeavour Eiver have “ red sandstone escarpments,” a 
feature that assimilates it scmewdnit to the “New Ecd ” or 
Triassic formation. 
Tertiarx Eocks. 
Kainozoic of Duncan. 
Throughout the whole of Eastern Australia, including New 
South Wales and Queensland, no Tertiary marine deposits have 
been discovered. There are, however, in various places of New' 
South Wales patches of plant dei^odts wdiich, according to the 
frequent notices of geologists, may" be referred to some period of 
the Tertiary epoch. A silicified sandstone, or quartzite of this kind, 
full of impressions of ferns and leaves of trees, but not known 
to be now living, occurs at Jerraw'a Creek not far from Tass. It 
is probably Miocene. On tho summit of the Cordillera, near 
Nundle, above the Peel Eiver Diggings, occurs a ferruginous bed 
full of leaves. On the Eichmond Eiver occurs a white magnesite, 
full of yellowdsh impressions of leaves. At Kewmng, in the 
county of Gowan, there is a bluish deposit of fine aluminous 
matter with black impressions. Erom a depth of GO feet in a 
shaft near Bungonia, a pale yellowLsh white deposit with similar 
impressions was brought up ; and on the summit of a “ made” 
hill, above Kiandra Grold Eield, at a height of 4,000 feet above 
the sea, and in a region now^ partly covered with snow" many 
