New South Wales. 
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descent: of Jacob’s Pass to the Tpngaro Kiver. In 1S5L I con¬ 
sidered the Granites and Porphyry to be Devonian, and I know 
now from my own researches and the revelations of Mr. Howittf 
an d others that bedded Devonian rocks may be traced at 
intervals in si somewhat direct course from Gippsland to the 
County of Phillip. # 
There are several important deductions in Mr. Hewitt’s paper 
which there is no space here to consider. It will be of great value 
lo any one interested in the study of the Paheozoic formations 
of Australia, especially the relations, supposed or real, between 
the Middle and Upper divisions of them. 
I cannot refrain from noticing hero the service rendered to 
this question by my friend C. S. Wilkinson, E.G.S., who has 
lately brought out a map, under the auspices of the Department 
of Mines at Sydney, of a tract of country intimately known to 
myself during the last thirty-seveu years, and previously alluded 
to (p. 17), showing the geology of Hartley, Powenfells, Wailera- 
wang, and Itydal, and the relations of the Upper and Lower 
Carboniferous, Devonian, and in part Tipper Silurian formations, 
together with Granite, &c., in that part of the County of Cook 
which surrounds the Western liailway from Hartley Yale to the 
County of Koxburgh. It was in this area that 1 first found 
<rold in February, 1841, and in which (and recently in Mr. 
Wilkinson’s company) 1 have renewed my researches in geology 
from time to time. , . , , T .. 
As it belongs to the topic immediately m hand, 1 consider it 
only a duty (after so long an acquaintance with the country 
delineated) to testify to the general accuracy of the details, and 
the carefulness with which they have been expressed. It is the 
first work of the kind which has emanated from this Colony, and 
is at once a proof of the skill and honesty of the author, and a 
credit to the country. This map alone will serve to refute the 
absurd statement made in 44 Rrogrcss Report of the Geological 
Survey of Victoria No. Ill, 1S70, p. 02, that 4 ‘ Devonian roch s* 
have not been (Uncovered elsewhere in Australia ” than in Victoria ! 
without referring to Do Koninck’s account of the numerous fossils 
of that ago collected before 1850 in various parts of New South 
Wales, and which in the very year (1870) when the dogma was 
proclaimed ex cathedra had been described, figured, read before 
an eminent Society in Europe, and proclaimed by publication to 
the world !! (See Appendix XV.) 
§ 4. Upper Paleozoic. 
Notwithstanding the opinion expressed respecting L. nothum , 
I do not however affirm that Lepidodendroid plants do not 
occur in our Lower Coal Measures, as I have for years affirmed it; 
