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 6i,t SPPEDX. [C. qanrtp, ,fom above the pipe-clay.raThe appearance of the cl from which these specimens were token, is represented in the view of the bay on the south of Goulburn Island, (vol. i. p. 66); and a distant head in the view consists of the same materials. $mMS ISLSD, on the est of G. oulburn's south Island, (N. arrgtive, i. p. 70)--is composed of a reddish co,uj/ome- rat, nearly identical with some of the specimens above- mentioned. The western side of .ZET!IBRIDGB BAY, OI1 the north of MBLVXLLB ISLAXqD, consists of a range. of clilFs like those at Goulburn's Island; the upper part being red, the lower white and composed of p/ioe*c/a$;. The weltera extremity of B,THULS? Sxutxq!, between C, Ps HBLrTIU9 8aid CAP] Foutctov, is also formed of clilFs of a very dark red colour. IcaossB bL*D, at the mouth of CBmOeB OUm,, about one hundred miles from Port Keats.mReddish, very trtzose saJuf-stoAe; from a stratum which dips to the south-east, at an anle of about ten or fifteen derees. Micaceous and ar!tillaceo fuile ,mu/-sto, of purplish and greanidi hues, in patches, or occasionally i.mm*mixed; --precisely resembling the rock of Brecon, in South Wales, and, generally, the ' old red sand-stone' of the vicinity of Bristol and the confines of England and Wales. F'me- grained thin-slaty sand-stooJe, resembling certain beds of the coal formation, or of the millstone gTit, is found in large messes, under an "argillaccous cliff," on the north side of Lacrosse Island. The specimens from the interior of Cambridge Gulf are from ADOLI*HUS ISLAtqD, and consist o/reddish and 8Tey sam/*sto*, more or less decomposed.

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