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Directly upon this rests a coarse-grained sandstone, with a few 
imperfect casts of shells; while at the top of the cliff an 
arenaceous limestone band holds abundant specimens of the 
Strep torhf ncus crenistria so common throughout all the Lower 
Mariue series.” (p. 28S.) 
Here we have in addition to Glossopteris below Marine beds, 
Coal also below them, and lower down ••Glossopteris in the sand¬ 
stone and shale — facts quite in keeping with what has been so 
clearly shown by myself in parts of the Hunter Hirer basin in 
New South Wales. 
In further confirmation of such evidence, I will now quote an 
extract from a letter by Mr. Daintrce, dated “ Maryvale, North 
Kennedy (Queensland), January 22nd, 1870. On the McKenzie 
Hirer, near the junction of the Isaacs, the Coal Measures are 
highly inclined, Glossopteris the common fossil; but running up 
Hoper’s Creek they gradually become horizontal, and at the top 
of the Hoper’s Creek watershed horizontal beds of sandstone and 
sandy limestone are the only rocks exposed in section full of 
Hunter Hirer fossils, Producti, &c. * * * I could only be more 
assured than ever that the Glossopteris beds underlie these hori¬ 
zontal Productus beds , and a week spent in surveys would 
altogether settle the matter. I see Hector gets Glossopteris 
associated with Mesozoic fauna in New Zealand ; I am satisfied 
wc hare it with Palcoozoic Carboniferous fauna.” 
Speaking of the valley of the Comet Creek, Leichhardt (“ Over¬ 
land Expedition” pp. 101-5) says he met, on January 9-10,1845, 
with sandstones in the deep gullies running to the creek and on 
slight elevations — “Sandstone crops out in the gullies of the valley 
in horizontal strata, some of which are hard and good for build¬ 
ing, others like the blue-clay beds of Newcastle, with the 
impression of fern leaves identical with those of that formation. 
At the junction of Comet Creek and the river I found water- 
worn fragments of good Coal and large trunks ot trees changed 
into ironstone. I called this river the ‘McKenzie/ ” in honour 
of Evan MMvenzic. 
It is so far certain that the Newcastle beds underlie the Marine 
Carboniferous near the junction of the Comet and M'Kenzio. 
Gregory found the remains of Leichhardt’s camp on 17th 
November, 185G, but records no geological data at that spot 
(J.H.G.S., xxviii, p. 128). But \V. Lockhart Morton' (“Notes on 
Northern District of Queensland” Trans. Phil. Inst. Victoria, read 
23rd January, I860) noticed the Coal in large angular blocks at 
the junction. In another spot some distance from the junction 
and On the MTvcnzic he observed “ in a stratum of sandstone an 
angular piece of beautiful bright Coal embedded—proving that 
this piece of Coal is of greater age than the sandstone and than 
the scams of Coal which that sandstone overlies.” (p. 13.) 
