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ter, and the coast displays a series of low points, minated by red sand stones, which, though not rd, have better resisted the wearing action of the ves, than the softer strata which have occupied

intermediate creeks; passing through Cherry lley, the country has the same appearance until enter the by-road to Orwell or Gallows Point, en the soil loses its bright red colour and assumes reyish tint, and more argillaceous composition, icating to the geological traveller a change in the mposition of the rocks beneath. On reaching the tremity of the cape, a good section of a consider- le variety of rocks may be seen. Their dip is to E. S. E. by compass, (variation about [8 deg. .) at an angle of only 6 degrees; consequently, in ceeding along the shore to the westward, lower (1 older rocks appear cropping out from beneath se which overlie them. Commencing with those ich are higherin order, red and brown sand stone soft and rather coarse texture occupy a consider- ‘ e portion of the shore, projecting in low reefs into sea, and rising to the height of a few yards in a ter-worn cliff. Beneath these appear harder grey d stones, containing grey and brown impure lime- ne, in beds a few inches in thickness. One of se beds contains a number of fragments of fossil nts, in a very imperfect state of preservation. ilar lime-stone is found at Crown Point and Go:- nor’s Island, and probably at many other places the coast. Where it can be procured without ch cost, it might be found useful to the farmer. m the quantity of sand contained in it, the heat ployed in burning it must not be very intense, erwise it'will be fused into slags. Beneath these ta is a bed ofsand stone, containing small nodules ed ochre, and in one place the impression of a e fossil tree, whose wood has disappeared, leaving ould which has been filled with ochreous clay. ceeding in the same direction we find beds of siderable thickness consisting of grey and brown y, apparently without coal or fossils. Beneath