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In his next (Thirteenth) Report Mr. Stutchbury gave furtner proofs of the 
modern uprising of the land in Moreton Bay District, under date 20th May, 1854 : — 
“At Luggage Point* * I found the remains of a skeleton of an exceeding large whale 
which had been thrown whole upon the beach. It was much decomposed, every cell in 
the bones being filled with mud, and deposited just within the verge of the present high 
water mark, in fact in such a possition that it would have been impossible for the highest 
waves to have rolled it from deep water over the extensive shoals which lie out in this 
direction.” 
On Bribie Island “ the whole of the eastern seaward coast is composed of the 
purest sand, with scarcely a pebble intermixed — an east and west section showing, in a 
line of a quarter of a mile in length, several distinct parallels of shore— a further 
instance of the fact of upheaval.” 
In his “ Sixteenth Report,” dated 20th November, 1855, Mr. Stutchbury has the 
following note on Praser Island: — 
“ The curvilinear beach between South Trees Point and Barney Point presents 
an immense barrier of marine shells, extending far above the present high tide limit, 
and a few yards further inland considerable quantities of detrital pumice may be 
observed. This occurrence of pumice above the tidal lines of this period presents itself 
along the whole of the north-eastern shores, especially on the eastern or ocean beach of 
the Great Sandy Island.” 
Mr. Alexander Maephorson read a Paper before the Royal Society of Queensland, 
on 7th August, 1890, .showing from observations at Sandgate and Nudgee that the land 
at the mouth of the Brisbane River is gradually being elevated. 
As shown in an exhaustive Memoir by Mr. T. "VV. Edgeworth David and my 
Colleague,! raised beaches occur in the delta of the Hunter River, New South Wales, 
and reach to fifty feet above the sea level. 
I hold that a great submergence of the eastern coast (as exemplified by Sydney 
I Harbour and the Townsville Deep Drifts) was, at a comparatively recent date, succeeded 
1 by a movement of elevation, which is still in progress. 
^o evidence of a Post-Tertiary Glacial Period has ever, so far as I am aware, been 
met with in Queensland, unless the presence of temperate plants on some of our tropical 
mountains be taken to afford the necessary proof. It is not improbable, however, that 
evidence may yet be found in the southern ranges of the Colony of an approach to the 
climatic conditions which prevailed in South Australia and perhaps in Victoria and the 
southern parts of New South Wales (Mount Kosciusco). 
Professor Ralph Tate, in a Paper read before the Australian Association for the 
Advancement of Science at its meeting in Sydney in 1888, J described certain glaciated 
surfaces on the shores of Hallett’s Cove, in St. Vincent Gulf, a few miles from 
Adelaide, in the following terms : — 
“ The glaciated surface, which I announced in 1877 as well developed on the 
coast cliffs at Hallett’s Cove, south of Holdfast Bay in St. Vincent Gulf, remains as 
yet unique; but once it is accepted as of glacial origin, many other features obscure in 
themselves acquire co-ordinate value in relation therewith. It is not my purpose to 
describe the various signs w'hich now can safely be attributed to glacial action, but 
simply to bring to your notice tangible evidences of the glaciated condition of the rock 
surface at Hallett’s Cove, and of its associated moraine d&bris. Actual inspection 
would, I am sure, convince you. 
* The north head of the mouth of Brisbane River. 
+ Eeo. Geol. Survey of N. S. Wales, 1890, ii., 2. 
* Proo. Austr. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 1890, i., p. 231 
