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But as they occur on the plateau or table-land above the Turon,
that river has had nothing to do with the accumulation and deposit.
They must owe their transport to some cause of wider operation than
a river.
Section of Wattle Flat .a dead level), head of Oaky Creek above
the Turon River, New South Wales.
Gold
and 2.
Bones.
ft. ft. in. (No. 6.)
1 to 1 ^ \ Whitish-grey, felspathic, sandy marl, exter-
nally like chalk.
(No. 5.)
Sandy clay, with ferruginous patches and peb-
bles of ironstone; also cubes of black pyrites.
(No. 4.)
- Q J Highly micaceous, marly, and sandy clay, with
1 small pebbles.
(No. 3.)
Brown unctuous clay, with small shingle of
ironstone ; trap and red quartz breccia.
(No. 2.)
r Buflf-coloured clay, with pebbles of trap, iron-
g J stone, and quartz. This is the " washing-
I stuff" of the diggers, and contains gold.
I The position of the bones is seen in the sketch.
(No. 1.)
" Bed " or underlying rock, a decomposing,
ferruginous, siliceous trap, filled with minute
cubes of black striated pyrites.
The occurrence of fossil remains of extinct gigantic animals of
living genera is now known to be a much more general phsenomenon
in Australia than it was supposed to be. Besides at the Condamine,
Wellington, and Boree, and Mount Macedon in Victoria, I have lately
had evidence of their existence in various other places, such as at
the head of the Coodradigbee River ; on the Murrembidgee ; on the
Turon ; at Mudgee on the Cudgegong River ; on Terabeile Creek,