New South Wales. 
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Mr. Daintree lias, however, mistaken the locality he gives to 
the Tellina. He received a portion of a Trilobite , and not a 
Tallinn, from Barkly’s Table-land, and a cast of a whole one, which 
would give to that locality a Devonian character. 
There is no doubt a line waterworn drift over large areas of 
the auriferous and stanniferous regions and in the southern part 
of Mancero ; but in many cases the drift betrays its origin, as the 
result of the disintegration of conglomerates, and such I believe 
to be the origin of the drift seen by Professor Liversidge near 
Wall era wang. (**Report on m Iron Ore and Coal Deposits” read 
before the lloval Society, 9 Dec., 1871.) He compares it with 
the diamond drift at Hinge raj alluding to the u nodules of con¬ 
glomerate ” in each ; but this conglomerate may be found in situ 
in the Coal-bearing beds close at hand. 
Many drifts have undoubtedly been dispersed, and rc-aggloin- 
erated and again dispersed, from one age to another, and the 
fineness of the pebbles and their perfect attrition afford testimony 
as to their antiquity, though now called recent. 
The outliers of the Tertiary deposits in Is. \Y. Australia and 
what is called the “Northern Territory” (attached to South 
Australia) are little known beyond the coast, but there is probably 
a wide area between Cape Yillaret on the North-west Coast and 
the watershed of the A ictoria liiver in which Tertiary beds will 
be probably be found. The Pcv. J. E. Tenison-Woods in 1801 * 
points out the Coburg Peninsula as Tertiary, and Port Essingion 
was considered by Professor Juices to have evidence of the same. 
Judging from collections in my own cabinets, there must be, 
however, a preponderance of far older formations. It is, never¬ 
theless, also probable, froin its auriferous conditions and the pre¬ 
sence of granite and basalt, that there are Tertiary deposits in that 
portion of the interior, and of which the basalt may lie the igneous 
representative. r l he Tertiary fossils of the South Coast of Aus¬ 
tralia, from near Cape Howe to Capo Lceuwin, have been part ially 
known from the mention of them by several authors ; and those ot 
South Australia and the Murray liiver have been more or less 
elaborately treated of by Sturt, Eyre, Angus, and with critical 
acumen by Woods, Buslc, and Professor Tate of Adelaide. But 
somehow the great sections, nearly 000 feet thick, along the 
Australian Bight have yet to be catechised as to whether the 
Australian Tertiaries follow the laws which ruled the existence 
of these deposits in Europe, or whether the peculiar aberrations 
noticed by Mr. AVoods in some of his valuable writings are or are 
not exceptions to those laws* 
* “ North Australia: Its Physical Geography and Natural JUslory.” Bg 
Rev. J. R- Tenison- Woods, F.R.G.S., R.L.S., R.G.S., cfc. } p. 10 . 
