[Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2] by Phillip Parker King]@TWC D-Link book
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]

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A nearly uniform greenish compound of epidote intimately mixed with quartz, also occurs at this place.

Flat lamellar chalcedony.

Very fine-grained reddish-grey quartzose sandstone, with traces of a slaty structure, resembling that of York Sound, and Cambridge Gulf, was found in the north-east end of this bay; and fine-grained greenstone, on the summit of the adjacent hills.
Several of these specimens are almost identical with those of Port Warrender; from which place Careening Bay is distant about sixty miles.
BAT ISLAND (Narrative volume 1) western entrance of Careening Bay.

Quartz from thin veins, with particles of an adhering rock, probably chlorite-slate.

Quartz, containing disseminated hematitic iron-ore and copper pyrites.


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