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 GBOLOGY. l NATURAL HISTORY. 617 dish-grey'qsartzose sand-stone, with traces of a slaty stme-- ture, resembling that of'York Sound, and Cambridge Gulf,, was found in the north-east 'end of this bay; and fine-. grained 9re=stone, on the summit of the adjacent hills. Several of these specimens axe almost identical with those of Port Warrender; from which place Careening Bay is dis- rant about sixty miles. BAT lsm, (Narr. i.p. 42,) western entrance of Careen- ing Bay.--Quartz from thin veins, with particles of an ad-. bering rock, proba.!y ehlorite-slate. Quartz, containing dis- Seminated hemat/t/c iron-ore and coioioer /r/tes. Quartz crystals; with ealeedony, from nodules in arn/ydaloid. Quartz with specular iron ore. Green-stone, with ealee- dony and copper pyrites. A decomposed stone, probably consisting of wac.--The specimens of trap-rocks from this place am from a cavern. G.BVlLhn lsLixqn, near the entrance of Prince Regeut's River.--Keddish, coarsely granula, s///ceous sand-stone; in horizontal strata, intersected by veins of crystallized quartz *. HAL-WAY BAY, within Prince Regentis River on the west of the entrance, near Oreville Islund.--Hornb/onde rock ! nearly agreeing with that of Pohassco's Island, on the north-west of the Gulf of Carpentaria, (See above, p. 613.) Ca/cedon/, apparently from nodules in amygdaloid. Crr- ish aartz, approaching tO heliotrope. Red, somewhat slaty jasper, mixed with quartz and calcedony, and containing specular iron ore. The specimens from this place much resemble some of those from Sotto i Sassi, in the Val di Fassa in the Tyrol,,
 * Narrative, vol. ii. p. .

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