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APPENDIX. 
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Captains Flinders and King, — with a summary of the geo- 
logical information derived from the specimens. But I 
have thought it necessary to subjoin a more detailed list 
of the specimens themselves ; on account of the great dis- 
tance from each other of many of the places where they 
were found, and of the general interest attached to the pro- 
ductions of a country so very remote, of which the greater 
part is not likely to be often visited by geologists. The 
situation of such of the places mentioned, as are not to be 
found in the reduced chart annexed to the present publica- 
tion, will be sufficiently indicated by the names of the ad- 
jacent places. 
GENERAL SKETCH OF THE COAST. 
The north-eastern coast of New South Wales, from the lati- 
tude of about 28°, has a direction from south-east to north- 
west ; and ranges of mountains are visible from the sea, with 
little interruption, as far north as Cape Weymouth, between 
the latitude of 12° and 13°. From within Cape Palmerston, 
west of the Northumberland Islands, near the point where 
Captain King began his surveys, a high and rocky range, of 
very irregular outline, and apparently composed of primitive 
rocks, is continued for more than one hundred and fifty 
miles, without any break *, and after a remarkable opening, 
about the latitude of 21°, is again resumed. Several of the 
summits, visible from the sea, in the front of this range, are 
of considerable elevation : — Mount Dryander, on the pro- 
montory which terminates in Cape Gloucester, being more 
than four thousand five hundred feet high. Mount Eliot, 
with a peaked summit, a little to the south of Cape Cleveland, 
is visible at twenty-five leagues’ distance ; and Mount Hinch- 
inbrook, immediately upon the shore, south of Rockingham 
Bay, is more than two thousand feet high. From the south 
