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at right angles to the Mount Holly bed. At its western extremity for two 
nree miles it is full of encrinite stems. It is intersected by a north-westerly dyke 
perphyry. 
I’roin a limestone on a hill near Langmorn, and about six miles to the south-west 
ho above, Mr. Hands obtained some specimens of Pelecypods. A similar limestone 
I'uis what ai‘6 known as the Bald Hills. Several auriferous reefs and a copper lode 
'^^ur among the slates of this neighbourhood.* 
^ Jh addition to the fossils collected by Mr. Bands, the late Mr. James Smith made 
congijgj.j^i^jg collection from the Eaglan and Langmorn Limestones. Mr. Smith 
cn iSed the limestones, without hesitation, with those of Dalma and Lilymere near 
and the slates in connection with the Raglan and Langmorn Limestones 
y/ 1 sslates of the Rockhampton District. Mr. Smith obtained from a dejjosit of 
agtna at Langmorn, which there, as at Dalma, represents caves from which the 
cuudiag limestone has been denuded, a large bone which is as yet undetermined. I 
no difficulty in classing the Raglan t and Langmorn Beds with the Gympie Beds. 
ind^ yielded the following fossils as determined by Mr. Etheridge : — Favosites, sp. 
■ > ^yfitliophpllum, sp. ind., PI. 7, fig. 1 ; and MyrioUtlies ? queen slandensis, Eth. fil.J 
La ^ marble, probably the equivalent of some of the limestone beds at 
It Raglan, crosses the Calliope River about a mile below Carrara Station. 
Qu ^ bar across the river in a north-north-westerly direction,' and has boon 
as shipped in small schooners which at high tide can come up the river as far 
[ef th* marble would be valuable for statuary purposes. At the crossing 
qu t ° Rockhampton and Gladstone road] is a dyke of porphyry, wdth small blebs of 
I'unning parallel with the marble. This has partially decomposed into kaolin, 
pj . Lhe limestone is met wdth every here and there on either side of Brennan’s 
file C^V Station Hill, Ten Men’s Gully, Gordon’s Gully, and other places [on 
On Gold Field] ; then going in the same direction, and crossing the watershed 
ealler] IN’ew Zealand Gully and on to the Boyne River at the settlement 
Marblestone, where it occupies nearly the whole area between Raggote Creek 
the river, 
good polish. 
At Marblestone it is in places a greyish-white marble, which will take 
It again occurs on the south side of the Boyne. I was unable to detect 
remains in these limestones ; they have become very crystalline, and in all 
®eve^ '*'yo.ny fossils they mayhave contained have been destroyed during their change.” § 
•"o o-uriferous reefs occur in slates and schists associated wdth the limestones, 
for f Kooingal extensive deposits of limestone have been successfully exjiloited 
*Oatel ’^‘‘'0^0® Smith. The fossils prove the limestones to be approxi- 
Collo.'^ ^g® o^' f^i® Gympie Beds. So far as they have been determined by my 
‘"'gue they are as follow 
Montieudipom, sp ind., PI. 38, figs. 1, 2. 
Stenopora, sp. ind., PI. 6, figs. 14, 15. 
Crinoid stems. 
Fenestella, sp. ind. 
■dviculopecten multiradiatus, Eth. 
1 1 B'and? on the Goldfields of Eaglan, &c. Brisbane ; by Authority: 1885.^ 
the I cannot concur with my Colleague in the classification of the Eaglan Limestone 
Sinij], tiods. The fossils that I have seen from Eaglan, including in a later collection made by 
^*’‘'01 the Q remind me far more of those of the Burdekiu Beds. I have never seen Favosites 
rotn tlcd.S| and certainly not neither have I observed any trace of MyrioUthes 
• (R.E. junr.) 
: Ocouas 
§ Reun f Ijilymero and Dalma Limestones, near Eockh.ampton [fide Smith), 
r hy tv. H. Eands on the Gold Fields of Eaglan, Calliope, &o., 1885, p. 3. 
