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by numerous irregularities, especially on the north-west 
coast, are yet sufficiently distinct to indicate a probable con- 
nexion with the geological structure of the country ; since the 
coincidence of similar ranges of coast with the direction of 
the strata, is a fact of very frequent occurrence in other parts , 
of the globe *. And it is observable that considerable uni- 
formity exists in the specimens, from the different places in 
this quarter of New Holland which have been hitherto exa- 
mined ; sandstone, like that of the older formations of Eu- 
rope occurring generally on the north and north-west coasts, 
and appearing to be extensively diffused on the north-west 
of the Gulf of Carpentaria, where it reposes upon primitive 
rocks t. 
in 1815, was of extraordinary violence. See R. Inst. Journal, 
vol. i. (1816), p. 248, &c. 
At Lacrosse Island, in the mouth of Cambridge Gulf, on 
the north-west coast of New Holland, the beds rise to the N.W. : 
their direction consequently is from S.W. to N.E. ; and the rise 
towards the high land of Timor. The intervening sea is very 
shallow. 
* A remarkable case of this kind, which has not, I believe, been 
noticed, occurs in the Mediterranean ; and is conspicuous in the 
new chart of that sea, by Captain W. H. Smyth. The eastern 
coast of Corsica and Sardinia, for a space of more than two hun- 
dred geographical miles being nearly rectilinear, in a direction from 
north to south ; and. Captain Smyth has informed me, consisting 
almost entirely of granite, or, at least, of primitive rocks. The 
coast of Norway affords another instance of the same description ; 
and the details of the ranges in the interior of England furnish 
several examples of the same kind, on a smaller scale. 
+ The coast lines nearly at right angles to those above-mentioned 
— from the S.E. of the Gulf of Carpentaria to Limmen’s Bight, — 
from Cape Arnhem to Cape Croker, — and from Cape Domett to 
Cape Londonderry, — have also a certain degree of linearity ; but 
much less remarkable, than those which run from S.W, to N.E. 
