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Fig. 2. — Granite Rocks near the Axakies. 
In the valley of the Watts River, and on the southern slopes of 
Mount Raw Raw, grow some of the loftiest trees (Eucalypts) in 
the world, surrounded by a dense growth of hazel ( Pomaderris 
cipetala ), musk ( Aster argophyllus ), dogwood (Senecio Bed - 
fordii ), sassafras ( Atherosperma moscliatum ), various pittospo- 
rums, and numerous other shrubs and tree-ferns of several species. 
The native beech (Fagus Cunning hnmi ), one of the most beauti- 
ful of our forest trees, attains its greatest perfection in those 
localities. 
Mineralqgical Characters. 
The typical granite of Victoria is the normal coarse to fine 
crystalline-granular ternary compound of quartz, felspar, and mica, 
which constitutes the typical granite of other parts of the world. 
Nearly all. other known varieties are also met with — as binary 
granite , composed of quartz and felspar; griesen , composed of 
quartz and mica, and devoid of, or very poor in, felspar; syenite 
granite, porphyritic granite, &c. The felspar varies in colour 
from white to deep pink; the quartz is vitreous, white or grey in 
colour, and from nearly transparent to opaque; the mica is black, 
yellow, or white, and the three minerals occur in variable propor- 
tions. Rlack tourmaline (schorl) is frequently present as an 
accessary mineral. In the granite of Wilson’s Promontory, Beech- 
worth, Mount Alexander, &c. ? prisms of schorl occur, singly or 
aggregated in radiating masses. l)ykes of fine-grained schorl- 
aceous granite, accompanying quartz veins, intersect the ordinary 
granite in the first-named locality; and numerous other varieties, 
in the form of dykes, traverse the main granite masses. 
