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range that Mr. !N’orman Taylor, the Geologist attached to Ilann’s Expedition in the 
year 1872, discovered JSinnites and Ostrea.) Erom the summit, as far as the eye could 
reach, nothing but horizontally bedded rocbs could be seen. 
“ A little distance east of the 41i-mile peg a quarry has been opened for ballast 
on a horizontal sandstone of the usual type. A similar sandstone is seen in a cutting 
between the 4.31 and the 43f mile pegs. 
“Another ballast quarry has been opened to the south of the line — the 44i-mile, 
and distant about one hundred and fifty yards ; the sandstone is fine in grain and of a 
white colour. 
“ Eeddish-yellow, fine-grained sandstone dips to the east at angles varying from 
5 to 10 degrees in the vibinity of the 44i-mile peg. 
“ A conspicuous escarpment of coarse gritty sandstone trends east and west, 
distant about two hundred yards to the south of the 47i-mile peg ; a similar cliff — 
probably a continuation — occurs about half-a-mile to the south-east of the 49-mile peg. 
“ In the vicinity of the SSJ-mile, within two hundred yards of the line, on the 
south, a series of fossils were collected from a bed of fairly coarse grit w'hieh occupies 
the greater portion of the neighbourhood. The fossils, which resemble very closely 
those occurring in the Desert Sandstone of Croydon, consist of Maccoyella (?), internal 
casts of ItJii/nclioiiella, and others which I have not yet been able to determine.* 
“ Erom this point to the railway terminus at the Laura Elver, nothing but 
sandstones of the usual type occupy the country on both sides of the line. 
“ Eive miles up the Laura from the railway crossing, the following section is 
seen, in descending order, in a clifi in the river 
Ft. in. 
Grits with pebbles 
Shale 
Coal ... 
Shale 
Grey sandstone 
Sandy shale 
Fine-grained sandstone 
Bluish sandy shale 
Coal ... 
Sandy shale 
Sandstone 
. 8 10 
. 1 0 
. 0 2 
. 0 3 
. 0 0 
. 0 10 
. 1 8 
. 1 9 
. 0 5 
. 1 6 
. 0 0 
“ The whole of the beds lie horizontally. In this section there is an absence of 
underclay or seat-earth beneath the coal. 
“ An instructive section is to be seen in Puckley or Sandy Creek. The altitude 
of Mount Euby Station is, by Aneroid, 420 feet above sea-level. A traverse from this 
point to the divide between Leichhardt and Puckley Creeks showed coarse grits, lying 
horizontally upon granite, at 1,000 feet above sea-level. The summit of the divide is 
1,250 feet, thus giving a thickness of two hundred and fifty feet of sedimentary rocks at 
the head of Leichhardt Creek. "When, however, the waters of Puckley Creek are 
followed down, it is found that the thickness of the sedimentary beds has increased to 
five hundred and twenty feet. 
“ Erom the summit to 850 feet the whole of the rocks consist of coarse grits and 
conglomerates. At 380 feet below the summit, or 870 feet above sea-level, two seams 
of coal are seen to be interstratified with the grits. A section in the bank of the creek 
shows the lower seam of coal to be nine inches in thickness, three inches of the base 
of which is crowded with quartz granules to such an extent as to make it an 
* This locality, by the Kailway Survey, is about 466 feet above sea-level. 
