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 618 ,i)i)NDiX. which consist or reddish jasper with edcedony, .na � greenish flinty stone, like heliotrope,--the whole belongh the tmp-formatio POIlqT CUNlqlbIOHAIf,' eist of south from Cape Lvque, and about one hundred and fihy miles south=west of Prince Regenes River.Very compact and frae-grained reddish granular m'tz, with a glistening lustre, and fiat concholdal fracture. This stone, though so compact in the recent frac- ture, has distinct traces of stratification on the decomposed surface, which is of a dull reddish hue. Bright red ferru- ginsus granu/.r rrz, (Eisen-kieeel ?) with a glistening lustre, and a somewhat porous texture. "the soil uf the hills" at Cygnet ]ty, consists of very fine reddish-yellow quartzose sand. A. large rounded pebble, consisting of ferruginous ranr marrz, of a dark puq)!isho brown colour, and considerable density, was found here; near a fireplace of the natives, by whom it is used for. making their hatchets; with a fragment of a cocar 6,- crtto'on, like that of the west coast hereafter mentioned. The next specimens in CaptM'n King's onllecton,--a space of nxe than three hundred miles on this coast not having been examined by himsare from M_.us I sLy-m), in Dam- pier's Archipelago [See Narrative, vol. i. p. 56] :--they ceu- 'sist of fine-grained 'r*,-fon, and what appears to be a bualtic rock, of. amygdaloidal structure. DtB. K HAB. TOO'S ISLATD, west Ol iund of' rather fine-grained translucent quartzose c.mst  c%nee o.f t/m, of various shades of reddish and yellowish grey. 'this stone has in some places the stFueture of a breceia; the angles of tha imbded frag-

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