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gular ranges of detached rocky hills composed of sand-stone,, 
rising abruptly from extensive plains of low level land, su- 
persede the low and woody coast, that occupies almost unin- 
terruptedly the space between this inlet and Cape Wessell, a 
distance of more than six hundred miles. Cambridge Gulf, 
which is nothing more than a swampy arm of the sea, ex- 
tends to about eighty miles inland, in a southern direction : 
and all the specimens from its vicinity precisely resemble the 
older sand-stones of the confines of England and Wales 
The View, (vol. i. plate, p. 301,) represents in the distance 
Mount Cockburn, at the head of Cambridge Gulf; the flat 
rocky top of which was supposed to consist of sand-stone, 
but has also the aspect of the trap-formation. The strata 
in Lacrosse Island, at the entrance of the Gulf, rise toward 
the north-west, — at an angle of about 30^ with the horizon: 
their direction consequently being from north-east to south- 
west. 
From hence to Cape Londonderry, towards the south, is 
an uniform coast of moderate elevation ; and from that point 
to Cape L^v^que, although the outline may be in a general 
view considered as ranging from north-east to south-west f, 
the coast is remarkably indented, and the adjoining sea 
irregularly studded with very numerous islands. The spe- 
cimens from this tract consist almost entirely of sand-stone, 
resembling that of Cambridge Gulf, Goulburn Island, and 
* I use the term ‘ Old Red Sand Stone,’ in the acceptation of 
Messrs. Buckland and Conybeare, “ Observations on the South 
Western Coal District of England.” Geol. Trans., Second Series, 
Vol. I. — Captain King's specimens from Lacrosse Island are not 
to be distinguished from the slaty strata of that formation, in the 
banks of the Avon, about two miles below Clifton. 
t The large chart (Sheet V.) best shews the general range of 
the shore, from the islands filling up the inlets. 
