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Alluvium 
10 feet. 
Hard basalt 
... 40 „ 
Decomposing basalt . 
40 „ 
AVashdirt. 
At Tigeroo shaft, near 
' which I procured the seed-vessels 
Earth ... 
10 feet. 
Basalt ... 
85 ,, 
Peat and shale... 
10 „ 
AVaslidirt with seeds and leaves. 
At lladdon, in A'ictoria, the fossil fruit was found in one 
shaft at the bottom of the followint^ section, resting on Silurian 
slates. (See Lynch’s plans. Yegetable Fossils of Viclorla.) 
Llack soil ... ... ... ... ... feet. 
Red clay ... ... ... ... ... 4 „ 
Lumpy red and black clay ... ... ... 2(1 „ 
Clayey honeycombed rock, witli hard cores 
succeeded by zeolitic basalt ... ... 100 ,, 
Do. decomposed at base ... ... ... ,, 
Black clay ... ... ... ... ... 7 ,, 
Drift itravel and sand (auyiferous) Trees at 
the bottom ... ... ... ... 10 ,, 
Auriferous wash dirt (Dossil fruits) ... G „ 
15G 
At Beechworth (El Dorado) occur wood and leaves in variably 
coloured clay above coarse drill, coverinp^ black clay with wood 
and leaves ; and below this, two to eight feet of washdirt, holding 
fruits and wood, resting on granite. (From Air. Arrowsmith’a 
plan. Id.) 
Mr. Daintree has stated his views respecting the Desert sand- 
stone of his map that it is a Kainozoic deposit, and once covered 
the greater part of Australia. In the ])laccs where it is in great 
force, in Northern Queensland it overlies the Cretaceous rocks, 
and underlies lava beds. It contains fossil wood ; and a Tellina 
which I sent to Mr. Daintree, from the neighbourhood of Jicich- 
hardt’s Crossing-jdace, cu the Blinder’s River, would, lie says, if 
coming from llie Desert sandstone, slmw that tliat formation is 
not lacustrine. In varicnis ])arts of New South Males there are 
ca])pingH of line liai’dened sandstone which may have some 
relation to the strata refciTod to. 
Air. Daintree has, however, mistaken the locality lie gives to 
the Tellina. lie received a portion of a Trilohite, and not a 
Tellina, from Barkly’s Tahlelaiid, and a cast of a whole one, which 
would give to that locality a Devonian character. 
