On the Cause of Earthquakes.

Philosophical Transactions 1760 volume 51 page 566 to 585, 586.) ...
DETAILED LIST OF SPECIMENS.
The specimens mentioned in the following list have been compared with some of those of England and other countries, principally in the cabinets of the Geological Society, and of Mr.Greenough; and with a collection from part of the confines of the primitive tracts of England and North Wales, formed by Mr.Arthur Aikin, and now in his own possession.

Captain King's collection has been presented to the Geological Society; and duplicates of Mr.Brown's specimens are deposited in the British Museum.
RODD'S BAY, on the East Coast, discovered by Captain King, about sixty miles south of Cape Capricorn.* Reddish sandstone, of moderately-fine grain, resembling that which in England occurs in the coal formation, and beneath it (mill-stone grit).

A sienitic compound, consisting of a large proportion of reddish felspar, with specks of a green substance, probably mica; resembling a rock from Shap in Cumberland.
(*Footnote.

In Captain King's collection are also specimens found on the beach at Port Macquarie, and in the bed of the Hastings River, of common serpentine, and of botryoidal magnesite, from veins in serpentine.