the east coast of Australia,
which were surveyed by Captain Flinders, are described in the account of
his voyage, and do not come within the object of the present paper.
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GEOLOGICAL REMARKS.
1. The rocks, of which specimens occur in the collections of Captain King
and Mr. Brown, are the following:
Granite: Cape Cleveland; C. Grafton; Endeavour River; Lizard Island;
Round Hill, near C. Grindall; Mount Caledon; Island near C. Arnhem;
Melville Bay; Bald-head, King George's Sound.
Various Slaty Rocks:
Mica-State: Mallison's I.
Talc-State: Endeavour River.
Slaty Clay: Inglis' I., Clack I., Percy I.
Hornblende Rock ?: Pobassoo's Island; Halfway Bay, Prince Regent's River.
Granular Quartz: Endeavour River; Montagu Sound, North-west Coast.
Epidote: C. Clinton ?; Port Warrender; Careening Bay.
Quartzose Conglomerates, and ancient Sandstones: Rodd's Bay; Islands of
the north and north-west coasts; Cambridge Gulf; York Sound; Prince
Regent's River.
Pipe-clay: Melville Bay; Goulburn I.; Lethbridge Bay.
ROCKS OF THE TRAP FORMATION.
Serpentine: Port Macquarie; Percy Isles.
Sienite: Rodd's Bay.
Porphyry: C. Cleveland.
Porphyritic Conglomerate: C. Clinton, Percy I., Good's I.
Compact Felspar: Percy I., Repulse Bay, Sunday Island.
Greenstone: Vansittart Bay, Bat I., Careening Bay, Malus I.
Clinkstone: Morgan's I., Pobassoo's I.
Amygdaloid, with Chalcedony: Port Warrender; Half-way Bay; Bat Island;
Malus I.
Wacke ?: Bat Island.
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Recent calcareous Breccia: Sweer's Island, N. coast. Dirk Hartog's and
Rottnest Islands, etc., West coast. King George's Sound, South coast.
The only information that has been published respecting the geology of
New Holland, besides what is contained in the Voyages of Captain Flinders
and Commodore Baudin, is a slight notice by Professor Buckland of some
specimens collected during Mr. Oxley's Expedition to the River
Macquarie,* in 1818; and a brief outline of a paper by the Reverend
Archdeacon Scott, entitled A Sketch of the Geology of New South Wales and
Van Diemen's Land, which has been read before the Geological Society.**
On these authorities, the following may be added to the preceding list of
rocks:
Limestone, resembling in the character of its organic remains the
mountain limestone or England: Interior of New Holland, near the east
coast; Van Diemen's Land (Buckland; Prevost manuscripts; Scott).
The Coal-formation: East coast of New Holland;
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