The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . ed up sometimes on sloping buttresses, and looking, asMr. Henry ]5rooks says, like broken slabs of the oldpavement that was shattered by the earthquake throes on theupheaval of the granite. The rivers of the coast, while not infrequcnth flowingthrough the stratified rocks to the granite beneath, often pass 51 between picturesque cliffs of reddish sandstone, some of whichmost probably belong to the Devonian and Silurian systems,and some to the younger age of the new red , again, are associated with alterna
The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . ed up sometimes on sloping buttresses, and looking, asMr. Henry ]5rooks says, like broken slabs of the oldpavement that was shattered by the earthquake throes on theupheaval of the granite. The rivers of the coast, while not infrequcnth flowingthrough the stratified rocks to the granite beneath, often pass 51 between picturesque cliffs of reddish sandstone, some of whichmost probably belong to the Devonian and Silurian systems,and some to the younger age of the new red , again, are associated with alternating layers of grittysandstone, which unquestionably is of the carboniferous of greenstone-trap constantly pierce the sandstoneformations, while faults are frequent. Coal occurs in Natal amongst the carboniferous sandstonesin various places, and, fortunately for the Colon), is abundant. Mr. Etheridge, an experienced geologist, considers thatthe most abundant form of vegetable impression found uponthe sandstones associated with the Natal coal deposits, belongs.
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