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which I have seen in the collection of Mr. Herschel ; and 
which consist of reddish jasper with calcedony, and a 
greenish flinty stone, like heliotrope, — the whole belonging 
the trap-formation. 
Point Cunningham, east of south from Cape Lev^ue, 
and about one hundred and fifty miles south-west of Prince 
Regent’s River. — Very compact and fine-grained reddish 
granular quartz^ with a glistening lustre, and flat conchoidal 
fracture. This stone, though so compact in the recent frac- 
ture, has distinct traces of stratification on the decomposed 
surface, which is of a dull reddish hue. Bright red ferru- 
ginous granular quartz^ (Eisen-kiesel ?) with a glistening 
lustre, and a somewhat porous texture. A specimen of 
“ the soil of the hills” at Cygnet Bay, consists of very fine 
reddish-yellow quartzose sand. A large rounded pebble, 
consisting of ferruginous granular quartz, of a dark purplish- 
brown colour, and considerable density, was found here ; 
near a fireplace of the natives, by whom it is used for 
making their hatchets ; with a fragment of a calcareous in- 
crustation, like that of the west coast hereafter mentioned. 
The next specimens in Captain King’s collection, — a space 
of more than three hundred miles on this coast not having 
been examined by him — are from Malus Island, in Dam- 
pier’s Archipelago [See Narrative, vol. i. p. 56] : — they con- 
sist of fine-grained greenstone, and what appears to be a 
basaltic rock, of amygdaloidal structure. 
Dirk Hartog’s Island, west of Shark’s Bay. — A com- 
pound of rather fine-grained translucent quartzose sand, 
cemented hy carbonate of lime, of various shades of reddish 
and yellowish grey. This stone has in some places the 
structure of a breccia; the angles of the imbedded frag- 
