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of the qiiartzites, greywackes, and slates, is, by Aneroid, five hundred and sixty feet 
above the high-water mark on the beach. The lowest bed consists of a coarse quartzose 
conglomerate of seventy feet in thickness, succeeded by about fifty feet of fine-grained 
sandstones, with shales and thin coals, and in turn overlain by about three hundred 
feet of coarse massive grits. 
“ The following is a section in descending order : — 
Massive grits with coal streaks 
Ft. 
300 
in. 
0 
Carbonaceous shale with thin sandstone partings ... ... ... 
7 
0 
Coal (Guppy’s seam) 
0 
6 
Fine-grained sandstone with thin shales 
6 
0 
Black sandy shale with coal streaks 
3 
10 
Sandstone ... ... ... ... 
2 
0 
Shale... 
0 
6-8 
Sandstone 
0 
10 
Dark shale with coal streaks 
0 
6 
Fine grained sandstone (with an irregular base) and thin shales 
6-8 
0 
Fine grained flaggy sandstone with thin lenticular beds of sandy 
shale 
10-12 
0 
Quartzose conglomerate 
70 
0 
“ G-uppy’s coal-seam has been opened up, but no fresh light is thrown upon the 
section. There is no uuderelay or ‘ seat earth ’ beneath the coal. A sample of this 
seam, collected by myself, yielded on analysis : — 
Moisture 
Volatile hydrocarbons 
Vixed carbon 
Ash ... 
2-32 
15-20 
72-83 
9-65 
100-00 
The specific gravity is 1-66. The ash is of a yello-iv colour. 
“ Ifone of the beds in the section at Guppy’s Tableland have yielded any fossils 
with the exception of a few plant-remains, rootlets and fragments of leaves, from some of 
the carbonaceous shales. Fragments of coal are not uncommon in the upper grit. 
“ The section exposed at Indian Head is similar to that at Guppy’s Tableland, with 
the exception that the total thickness of strata is not so great, there being only about 
three hundred feet. The base lies at an altitude of about eight hundred feet above 
high-water mark. The lower and upper grits are continuous from Guppy’s Tableland, 
but they are sejjarated by a smaller thickness of flaggy sandstones and very sandy 
shales. A seam of coal is said to occur among these beds, doubtless a continuation of 
that seen in Guppy’s Tableland. 
“From this point westwards, the next outlier of sandstone is at Mount 
Fantastic ; this consists of about one hundred feet of sandstone, with neither shales nor 
coal. 
“ The tableland between Mount Fantastic and Connor’s Knob is of sandstone, as 
is also Connor’s Knob. 
“ In examining the cliffs to the north of the Endeavour, near its head, I saw 
nothing of any of the shales, the whole section appearing to be coarse massive sand- 
stones. 
“ The hills in the neighbourhood of Brannighan’s Bluff, in Isabella Creek, are 
reported to contain a thin seam of coal. 
“ Crossing the divide into the waters of the Kormanby, the Desert Sandstone 
Beds are found to be represented by sandstones and grits without any of the intervening 
