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tlie limited opportunities we liad of inspecting the country, 
to say in what dir ection such tracks should be carried. 
Some of the hills attain here a considerable elevation, 
showing rather sharp peaks. 
A little north of Shady Creek we entered on a granitic 
area, and at Noeyang we found quaternary granite and 
felstone. 
The section from Shady Creek to u js 
Noeyang is as follows :— 
Seven miles north of Noeyang the road 
crosses the Fainting Range at a point 
about 250 feet below the summit. The 
rocks of this range, in places, are of some¬ 
what similar character to those observed 
near Tauibo, but on the whole may per¬ 
haps be regarded as metamorphosed lower 
Silurians in the first and second stages of 
transition, and traversed by numerous 
igneous dykes. 
Where the River Hewitt joins the 
Tambo, we found in the beds of the 
rivers outcrops of rocks, consisting prin¬ 
cipally of gneissose granite, and gneiss 
passing into granite, and in the bed of 
the river boulders of granite with biotite, 
foliated schists, and masses of felspar and ^ 
quartz. 
Where planes of bedding were obser¬ 
vable hi the rocks in situ the strike was 
found to be N. 10° W., with a very lygh 
angle of dip. 
In the boulders in the bed of the river 
we observed also masses of mica schist. 
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