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“ On the south aide of the Cape Eivcr, opposite to Harvest Homo Station, a high 
ridge oeeurs coming down close to the river. On the northern flanks of this ridge are 
similar sandstones dipping steeply east-north-east against a felsitic rock, much resembling 
that of Mount St. Paul. The ridge is composed chiefly of this rock.^ 
‘‘The country is quite flat from here across the valley of the Suttor Eiver. 
“Along the road from Harvest Home Station to Lornesleigh Station, numerous 
outcrops of sandstones, sandy shales, and quartzites occur, having a general dip towards 
E at from 22° to 30°. I could find no fossil remains in them. A large reef of ‘ buck 
quartz crosses the road in a north-north-easterly direction about two miles east of the 
station. -n- 
“After crossing the Cape Eiver at its junction with the Suttor Eiver, near 
Lornesleigh Station, the road passes over alluvial flats for a distance^ of four miles. A 
this point%eds of fclspathic sandstone and sandy shales dip E. 35° S. at 20°. These 
beds are full of stems of Lepidodendron, Calamites, and Oyclostigma ? a stem wi 
circular leaf-scars. I also found the nearly perfect remains of a fish, which Mr. E. 
Etheridge, .Tunr., says certainly belongs to the family Falwoniscidw, and probably is o 
the genus itself.* .i, r 
“ The ridges all about here consist of similar beds. About half-a-mile south or 
this spot there is a bed full of some small, somewhat tripartite nodules which I thoug t 
might be Trigonocarpon, but Mr. Etheridge pronounced them too badly preserved to 
determine. . 
“ Between this and Mount McConnell Station, Lepidodendron occurs in many 
places in the rock. At that station the beds dip south-east. 
“ Along the road from Mount McConnell Station to Mount Wyatt, blacksoil 
flats are traversed for about two miles, and then there is a small boss of granite abou 
two miles across ; beyond this the Star Beds occur again, dipping to the north-west tor 
five miles in a south-east direction, and then Gympie Beds come in.f 
“ Lepidodendron also occurs in the ridges about two miles east of the station, on 
the eastern side of the Sellheim Eiver. _ 
“ Between Mount McConnell Station and Mount McConnell itself, which 
is about ten miles to the north, the beds are dipping S.E. at 40°. What are 
known as the ‘ Crags’ are on the western side of the road, about seven miles from 
the station. They are cliffs of hardened sandstone or quartzite of from 50 to 100 feet 
in height. . i j 
“ The rocks immediately south of Mount McConnell consist of beds ot sana- 
stones, fissile shales, and conglomerates, dipping to the south-east at a high angle. The 
pebbles of the conglomerates consist chiefly of quartz, sandstone, and quartzite.^ 
half-a-mile west of the mountain a thin bed of blue impure limestone dips S.E- 
at 45°. West of the limestone again, as far as the Suttor Eiver, thin laminate 
shales occur dipping S.E. at 35°. These shales are full of segregated nodules, o 
from an inch to nearly a foot in diameter. I searched carefully for any fossi 
remains about here, buti was only successful in finding a few w'hich were very 
indistinct. 
“ Mount McConnell itself is composed of felsite; The Star Beds occur as tar a 
the Burdekin, and can be traced six miles or so down the river.” J 
* The specimen was forwarded to Mr. A. S. Woodward, of the Museum of Natural History, London, 
who confirmed the reference to Palaoniscua, allowing for the absence of the head. 
+ Report on the Sellheim Silver Mines and surrounding District, by E. L. Jack. Bnsbane : r 
Authority: 1889. „ . , , , ,, .. -om „ ifi. 
t Report on the Cape River Gold Rield, by William H. Rands. Brisbane : by Authority : 1891, p. m 
