Three expeditions into the interior of eastern Australia; with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix, and of the present colony of New South Wales . r and augite. Silicificdfossil wood of a coniferous tree, is found abundantly in theplains, and in rounded pebbles in the banks and bed of theriver, also chalcedony and compact brown haematite. A hillof some height on the right bank, situate twenty-six milesfrom the sea shore, is composed chiefly of a volcanic grit ofgreenish grey colour, consisting principally of felspar, andbeing in some parts slightly, in other parts h
Three expeditions into the interior of eastern Australia; with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix, and of the present colony of New South Wales . r and augite. Silicificdfossil wood of a coniferous tree, is found abundantly in theplains, and in rounded pebbles in the banks and bed of theriver, also chalcedony and compact brown haematite. A hillof some height on the right bank, situate twenty-six milesfrom the sea shore, is composed chiefly of a volcanic grit ofgreenish grey colour, consisting principally of felspar, andbeing in some parts slightly, in other parts highly calcareouswhen the rock assumes a compact aspect. This deposit con-tains numerous fossil shells, consisting chiefly of four dis-tinct species of a new genus, nearest to hippopodium ; alsoa new species of trochvs ; ntrijpa glabra, and spirifer, ashell occurring also in older limestones of Enland.* • These shells having liccn submitted to iMr. James Dc Carl Sowerliy, T .niiiindebted to that peiitleman for the following df-;crii)tioii. Class Conchifcru. Order, Dimi/aria. Genus, equal, inequilateral, thick, their edges even ; umbones nearly ceu-. FJU2 i^ Fig. 2. •^^^fftfeT^hy
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