Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia Part 33

30 Granite, grey, a variety.

31 Ferruginous sandstone.

32 Silicious rock, with veins of quartz.

33 Mica slate.

34 Quartz, indurated with red veins.

35 Silicious rock, dusky.

36 Silicious rock, white.

37 Gypsum, or sulphate of lime.

38 Quartz veins from slate; trap rock, containing hornblende and feldspar; limestone, recent, with clay and slate imbedded.

39 Impure and slaty limestone; hornslate, a variety.

40 Hemaet.i.te, a silicious oxide of iron; quartz veins in slate; silicious rock; chalcedony; sandy clay.

41 Indurated and dusky quartz.

42 Quartz, a hard, fine-grained dusky variety.

43 Ditto ditto ditto 44 Silicious rock, appearing a k.n.o.b, from a slate formation 45 Limestone (fibrous).

46 Silicious rock.

47 Horn slate.

48 Silicious rock; iron-stone pebbles.

49 Hornstone.

50 Quartz.

51 Quartz.

52 Trap rock.

53 Quartz.

54 Hornstone.

55 White rock.

56 White sandstone.

57 Sandstone.

58 Sandstone.

59 Silicious oxide of iron.

60 Gypsum.

It will be seen, by an inspection of the map, that there is a large interval of low depressed country, between Stanley's and Grey's Ranges.

The rock formation on the latter being almost exclusively of one kind.

Beyond Grey's Range, no elevation in the interior, on the N.W. line traversed by the Expedition, was seen; but on the Stony Desert the fragments of rock, with which it was covered, were composed of indurated quartz, rounded by attrition, and coated with oxide of iron. North of the Stony Desert, sandstone occurred in the bed of Eyre's Creek, and milky quartz cropped out of the ground, in lat. 25 degrees 35 minutes, and in long. 138 degrees 39 minutes. The valley of Cooper's Creek was, however, bounded in by low quartzose hills, covered with sand. The general level of the interior was otherwise ferruginous clay, on which the long sandy doones or ridges rested, excepting where their regularity was broken by flooded plains. The clay rested on sandstone, which, with a few exceptions, where fossil tertiary limestone occurred, similar to that of the Murray cliffs, was ferruginous sandstone, at the depth of two feet and a half or three feet.

NO. II. LOCALITIES OF THE DIFFERENT GEOLOGICAL SPECIMENS, COLLECTED BY THE CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN EXPEDITION.

1) From the cliffs of the Murray River, both above and below the great 2) north-west bend, bounding the valley of that river, with an average 3) height of 150 or 200 feet.

4) 5 From the sandstone hills on the Murray.

6 From Carnapaga, on the first creek to the N.W. of the Darling River.

7 From station No. 3, on the Barrier or Stanley's Range, Mount Darling.

8 From the Glen of Yancowinna.

9 From the Iron Ridge, south of the Glen of Yancowinna.

10 From Mount Bourke, on Stanley's Range, No. 1 station.

11 From the Iron Stone Hill on the Range (Piesse's k.n.o.b).

12 From a central hill on the Range.

13 From a central hill.

14 From Lewis's hill.

15 From the Black Hill Mount Robe.

16 From a valley in the Range.

17 From the bed of the Creek.

18 From the Rocky Glen.

19 From the outer Range to the westward of the Barrier, Station No. 1.

20 From the same, Station No. 2.

21 From the Stony Creek.

22 Gathered from the plains between the creeks to the west of the Ranges.

23 From a distant hill in Stanley's Range--the base.

24 From the summit of the same.

25 From a rugged detached hill.

26 From a small hill near the Range.

27 From the nearer plains.

28 Ditto ditto.

29 From a water-worn hill near Flood's Creek.

30 From Station No. 38, Mount Wood.

31 From the summit of the Range, Station No. 39.

32 From Station No. 40. Mount Lyell, fifty miles east.

33 From some low hills, near Flood's Creek.

34 From the last hill on Stanley's Barrier Range.

35 From the Magnetic Hill, Mount Arrowsmith.

36 From the Table Hill, Mount Browne.

37 From the White Hill.

38 From the Depot Glen.

39 From the Black Hill, Mount Robe.

40 Ditto ditto ditto 41 From the summit of Grey's Range.

42 From the last hill to the north, lat. 28 degrees 26 minutes.

43 From the most distant hill to the north-east.

44) 45) From the Depot Glen.

46) 47}} From the Plains to the north of the Red Hill, Mount Poole.

48}} 49) From various parts of the Depot Glen, and the Range with which it is 50) connected. This Range is separated from the main ranges, but still 51) occupies the eastern side of the high land, running between the eastern 52) and western waters.

53) 54) 55 From the summit of the Red Hill, Mount Poole.

56) From the base of the same hill.

57) 58 From the summit (2nd specimen).

59 From the plains north of the Depot.

60 From the plains.

BOTANICAL APPENDIX ROBERT BROWN, ESQ., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.L.S., &C.

My friend, Captain Sturt, having placed at my disposal the Collection of Plants formed in his recent Expedition into the Southern Interior of Australia, I am desirous of giving some account of the princ.i.p.al novelties it contains.

The collection consists of about one hundred species, to which might be added, if they could be accurately determined, many other plants, chiefly trees, slightly mentioned in the interesting narrative, which is about to appear, and to which the present account will form an Appendix. I may also observe, in reference to the limited number of species, that Captain Sturt and his companion, Mr. Brown, seem to have collected chiefly those plants that appeared to them new or striking, and of such the collection contains a considerable proportion.

In regard too to such forms as appear to const.i.tute genera hitherto undescribed, it greatly exceeds the much more extensive herbarium, collected by Sir Thomas Mitch.e.l.l in his last expedition, in which the only two plants proposed as in this respect new, belong to genera already well established, namely, Delabechia to Brachychiton, and Linschotenia to Dampiera.

In Captain Sturt's collection, I have been obliged, from the incomplete state of the specimens, to omit several species, probably new, from the following account, in which the plants noticed, chiefly new genera and species, are arranged according to the order of families in the Prodromus of De Candolle.