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other common in the whole region, that the attempt to separate them from the 
fossils present only the negative evidence of the absence of 
limitell proved hitherto a task beyond our powers. Attempts have been made in 
to ^ think that sufficient evidence has as yet been accumulated 
I conclusions which have been drawn.” In another place (p. 37) 
Roekl^ ~+ slates containing Fenestella, &c., from the Training Wall Quarries, 
f^eds tl™f^ James Smith, so much resemble some of the Gympie 
^lowev AT^ f ““’‘P stnall ai’ea as of the same age.” Since then, 
fossil T' ^ *" (now deceased) has brought to light a considerable collection of 
from^'^'^ localities extending over the greater part of the Port Curtis District, as well 
those f sufficient to prove the identity of the strata over this wide tract with 
Canial ^r. Rands’ collections from Raglan, Langmorn, Calliope, the Boyne, 
of the t • point to the same conclusion as regards these localities. The whole 
areas of tberefore, from Bat. 22° to Lat. 26°, with the exception of some limited 
^.ympie Bed removed from the Devonian and classed with the 
great ni^^ f^ardekin Downs, and for six miles up the Burdekiu River, the outcrop) of a 
by a o-pp*^** ° imostoue is seen at intervals. The area occupied by its outcrop is marked 
aiust\a^'^^f l^*^an that which covers the surrounding country. The limestone 
stand OT t*^' coral reef of great thickness. On its weathered surfaces the corals 
oxaminerl ? “irablo relief, lilcc triumphs of the sculptor’s art. When the corals are 
At tr microscope their cells are seen to be filled with calc-spar. 
^ad Burdel-’^ owuth of a little creek falling into the Burdekin between Arthur’s Creek 
^'ests direr! Downs Station, the limestone dips at about 10° to the north-west and 
fiierefore b i Its outcrop occupies half-a-mile, and its thickness should 
®midstone or^q^m^^t 't^ Jf i® succeeded by a bed of fliie-grained, white, hardened 
near under.stood in the district to be the same as “ Terrible Creek, 
D. Daintree'*™^"^^^^™'*^ Cattle Station, Burdekin River,” described by the late 
“ Journ^^ rf P^^nbly the same as that referred to by Leichhardt in his 
years 1SP4 o? ? Expedition from Moroton Bay to Port Essington during the 
“ ^n fee following terms : — 
nf various^ a very perfect and instructive geological section 
contain in/ limestone, which were afterwards found to 
em-al in Particularly corals, and a few bivalve shells.” To 'one 
Cl"'-' 8"' of 
'ompo,?! !!'” r™«ing IW, Mtlli of the P»nni„g Station, .t bed of limestono is seen 
least one Con/i remains of Corals, witli a few Brachiopods and at 
Eeneath th/r' above locality the limestone dips south-south-east at 20°. 
eoneretions sandstone with calcareous 
matrix is fn’n f containing numerous impressions of Gasteropods, but the 
stone is seen or removal. North of the station paddock the base of the lime- 
very neai a mass of granite,, on which probably the beds beneath the 
— seen 
imestone rest. 
band 
Imbitat), 
of low '\i River the outcrop of the limestone forms a semicircular 
d) anri J ^Eioli file Bottle-tree appears to have a favourite 
urns 0 t le river at the Old Station, five miles below the present station. 
* Qnavt. Journ, Geol, Soc., vol. xxviii., p. 290. 
