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 Captains Flinders and King,--with a summary of the geo- logical infomarion derived from the specimens. But I have thought it necessary to subjoin a more detailed list of the specimens themselves; un account of the great dis- tance from each other of many of the places where they were found, end of the general interest attached to the pro- ductions of a country so very remote, of which the greater part is not likely to be often visited: by geologists. 'le situation of. such of the places menrioued, as are not to be found in the reduced chart annexed to the present,publica- tion, will be sufficiently indicated by the names of the jacent places. TH north-eastern coast of New South Wales, from the lati- tude of about 8 �s a direction from south-east to north- west i and ranges of mountains are visible from the sea, with little interruption, as far north as Cape Weymouth, botweea the latitude of 12 � 13% From within Cape Palmerston, west of the Northumberland Islunds, near the point where Captain King began his surveys, a high and rocky range, of very irregular outline, and apparendy composed of primitive rocks, is continued for more than one hundred and miles, without any break'; and aler a remarkable opening, about the latitude of 21 �s again resumed. Several of the summits, visible from the sea, in the front of this range, are of considerable elevation :Mount Dryunder, on the pro- montory which terminates in Cape Gloucester, being more than four thousand five hundred feet high. Mount Eliot, with a peaked summit, a little to the south of Cape Cleveland, �is visible at twenty-five leagues' distunee; and Mount Hiach- inbrook, immediately upon the shore, south of Eockingham Bay, is more than two thousand feet high. From the south

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