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71 palæozoic sandstones of New South Wales and Tasmania. Captain King, on coming from the eastward speaks of the character of the country about Cambridge Gulf being altogether different from that which he had hitherto seen, "instead of the low shores which prevailed from Cape Wessel, or for 600 miles, there are now irregular ranges of detached hills of a sandstone formation" (vol. i. p. 291). In La Crosse Island, he speaks of fine grained sandstone in thick beds dipping gently to the S.E., p. 282. In the Eclipse Islands (near Cape Londonderry), quartzose sandstone in large water-worn masses on basis of same rock, p. 312. Port Warrender same sandstone crusted with quartz, p. 223. Water Island, one of the Montulivet Islands, horizontal strata of hard quartzose sandstone, covered with rude blocks of the same, p. 396. The islands off Cape Bond, a heap of sandstone rocks, p. 401. Hunter River, same great sandstone beds, p. 403. And at Roe River, where the cliffs are three hundred feet high, p. 408. Also about Careening Bay (in Brunswick Bay) where the beds dip at 5° to the S.E., p. 422. Prince Regent's Inlet and river and all the neighbourhood is composed of the same sandstone in beds from six to twelve feet thick, lying horizontally, the surrounding hills being upwards of 400 feet in height, (vol. ii. p. 46). In Hanover Bay, sandstone rocks, and the hills 250 feet high (vol. ii. p. 58). Captain Grey describes the great masses of sandstone in the country around Hanover Bay, where