CONTENTS. 
Preface 
Chapter X. Physical Geography. The Cordillera and its Spurs. 
Boundaries of Victoria. Mountain Systems. River Systems. 
Drainage Areas 
Chapter II. — List of Geological Formations. Relations of Main 
Geological and Geographical Features ... ... 
Chapter III. — Granite — localities ; physical character and vegetation 
of granitic areas. Mineralogical Characters— Stratigraphical Posi- 
tion and Relations to Palteozoic Rocks. Trappean Rocks— raineral- 
ogical characters of, and area>s occupied by 
Chapter IV. — Lower Palseozoic and Metamorphic (Azoic) Rocks. 
Silurian Rocks— geographical extent. Metamorphic Rocks— areas 
respectively occupied by Lower and Upper Silurian Rocks ; leading 
characteristics ; general theory as to origin and inetamorphism. The 
Metamorphic Rocks— “ regional ” and ‘ ‘ contact/* Unaltered Lower 
Silurian Rocks— fossils. Upper Silurian Rocks— fossils. Physical 
Character of Silurian Country ... 
Chapter V. — Middle and Upper Palteozoic Rocks. Snowy River 
Porphyries— character and origin ; scenery. Middle Devonian 
Rocks — limestones, fossils ; Bindi and Buchan limestones ; igneous 
beds of the Buchan group ; Mr. A. \V. Howitt’s remarks ; character 
of Devonian limestone country. The Tabberabbera Middle 
Devonian Rocks. Upper Palaeozoic Rocks. The Grampian Sand- 
stones. The Avon and Macalister Rocks ; the Mansfield Beds. 
Conglomerate of Wild-duck Creek 
Chapter VI.— Conjectures as to Geological History in Palaeozoic times. 
Lower Palaeozoic Formations. Snowy River Porphyries. Middle 
Devonian Rocks. Upper Palaeozoic Beds 
Chapter VII. — Mesozoic Rocks— Relations between Upper Paheozoic 
and Mesozoic Rocks of Victoria with Rocks of Now South Wales. 
The Bacchus Marsh Sandstones. Mesozoic Rocks of the Wannon, 
Cape Otway, Western Port, and South Gippsland. Coal-seams. 
Fossils. Conjectures as to Geological History 
Chapter VIII. — Tertiary Groups. Oligocene— localities, fossils. Miocene 
—marine beds, localities, character ; lacustrine deposits ; quartzites. 
Fluviatile Deposits. Miocene Fossils. Older Volcanic Rocks 
character, localities ... »... 
Chapter IX.— Upper Tertiary Formations. Marine Beds. Fluviatile 
Deposits. Fossils— vegetable, marine, and land animals, Newer 
Volcanic Rocks— areas occupied ; points of eruption. Post-Tertiary 
Deposits. Sand-dunes ... 
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