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Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]

CHAPTER 5
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The magnesite agrees nearly with that of Baudissero, in Piedmont.

(See Cleaveland's Mineralogy 1st edition page 345.) CAPE CLINTON, between Rodd's Bay and the Percy Islands.

Porphyritic conglomerate, with a base of decomposed felspar, enclosing grains of quartz and common felspar, and some fragments of what appears to be compact epidote; very nearly resembling specimens from the trap rocks* of the Wrekin and Breeden Hills in Shropshire.

Reddish and yellowish sandy clay, coloured by oxide of iron, and used as pigments by the natives.
(*Footnote.

By the terms Trap, and Trap-formation, which I am aware are extremely vague, I intend merely to signify a class of rocks, including several members, which differ from each other considerably in mineralogical character, but agree in some of their principal geological relations; and the origin of which very numerous phenomena concur in referring to some modification of volcanic agency.


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