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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