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the beach here is composed of pebbles and gravel formed of clay, slate, limestone and a few quartz pebbles.
The high cliff just to the north west of the mouth of the creek is formed of numerous thin strata of a dark, hard stone with cleavage so it comes off in small surface of a few inches in diameter or in some places in almost squared cubical blocks up to a foot--these strata have a remarkable contorted curvature near this stream which is figured in Capt. Hoopers? report of 1880. 
Some of these strata contain fossil shells "spinferite" [strike through] and [/strike through] but I had considerable trouble to find a specimen by the fossiliferous rock with distinct specimens in it. I secured specimens of several strata though the wind blew with such fury that every gush filled the air with fine gravel flying like shot and stinging ones for like hot needles--going back to the native camp I saw a pile of murras the natives had caught with nets by letting themselves over the cliffs and capturing the birds as they sit stupidly on their eggs which latter are also secured in this manner 
Washing about at the foot of the cliff were quite a number of dead murras probably killed by falling rocks and ice.
Following a small sheltered gully up the hillside I was delighted at the variegated carpet of beautiful flowers strewn lavishly up the whole course to the top of the hill--When I came near the top I turned and sat [strike through] at [/strike through] in a sheltered nook looking down at the wild and lovely scene before me--the foreground formed