Sedimentary Formations 
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Alluvium ... ... ... ... ... 10 feet. 
Hard basalt ... ... ... ... ... 40 „ 
Decomposing basalt ... ... ... ... 40 „ 
Washdirt. 
2. At Tigeroo shaft, near which I procured the seed-vessels: 
Earth ... ... ... ... ... ... 10 feet. 
Basalt ... ... ... ... ... ... *85 „ 
Peat and shale... ... ... ... ... 10 „ 
Washdirt with seeds and leaves. 
At Haddon, in Victoria, the fossil fruit was found in one 
shaft at the bottom of the following section, resting on Silurian 
slates. (See Lynch’s plans. Vegetable Fossils of Victoria.) 
Black soil ... ... ... ... ... 1-J- feet. 
Bed clay ... ... ... ... ... 4 „ 
Lumpy red and black clay ... ... ... 2G „ 
Clayey honeycombed rock, with hard cores 
succeeded by zeolitic basalt ... ... 100 „ 
Do. decomposed at base ... . 1 i „ 
Black clay ... ... ... ... ... 7 „ 
Drift gravel and sand (auriferous) Trees at 
the bottom ... ... ... ... 10 „ 
Auriferous wash dirt (Fossil fruits) ... 6 „ 
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At Beechworth (El Dorado) occur wood and leaves in variably 
coloured clay above coarse drift, covering black clay with wood 
and leaves ; and below this, two to eight feet of washdirt, holding 
fruits and wood, resting on granite. (From Mr. Arrowsmith’s 
plan. Id.) 
Mr. Daintree has stated his views respecting the Desert sand¬ 
stone of his map that it is a Kainozoic deposit, and once covered 
tho greater part of Australia. In the places where it is in great 
force, in Northern Queensland it overlies the Cretaceous rocks, 
and underlies lava beds. It contains fossil wood ; and a Tellina 
which I sent to Mr. Daintree, from the neighbourhood of Leich¬ 
hardt’s Crossing-place, on the Flindcr’s Eiver, would, he says, if 
coming from the Desert sandstone, show that that formation is 
not lacustrine. In various parts of New South Wales there are 
cappings of flue hardened sandstone which may have some 
relation to tho strata referred to. 
Mr. Daintree has, however, mistaken the locality he gives to 
the Tellina. He received a portion of a Trilobite , and not a 
Tellina, from Barkly’s Tableland, and a cast of a whole one, which 
would give to that locality a Devonian character. 
