Part 25 (2/2)

The Santalum Preissianuenerally on the whole route

The Spinifex so often mentioned is the Festuca (Triodia) irritans, the Spinifex of the Desert Explorers, but not of Science

Latitude 25 degrees 46 rees East:-- Marsdenia Leichardti, the climber with edible pods and milky sap, the seeds with a downy top, called by the natives Carcular

Latitude 26 degrees 4 rees 50 minutes East:-- The Casuarina Decaisneana, the Shea-oak or Desert Oak peculiar to Central Australia

APPENDIX 2

REPORT FROM R BROUGH SMYTH, ESQUIRE,

SECRETARY FOR MINES OF VICTORIA,

ON THE GEOLOGICAL SPECIMENS COLLECTED ON THE EXPEDITION

COLUMN 1: POSITION OF LOCALITY WHERE THE SPECIMEN WAS COLLECTED

COLUMN 2: REMARKS BY MR JOHN FORREST ON THE SPECIMENS FORWARDED

COLUMN 3: MR R BROUGH SMYTH'S REPORT ON SPECIMENS

Latitude 26 degrees South, Longitude 117 degrees 20 minutes East : Taken from Mount Hale on the Murchison River This fornetic, also very heavy There h, and the echo very remarkable I have seen the sarees Bare granite rocks soh not attached (May 4th) : Two small specimens of Micaceous Iron-ore with brown Haee

Similar ore occurs in Victoria, in Elvans in Porphyry, but it also occurs in Tertiary rocks

Latitude 26 degrees 17 rees 54which we entered the Triodia desert Found oozing out of rock in the water-shed of the Murchison : Brown Hae to yellow (Tertiary) Bituminous material Mr Cosmo Newbery reports that it is probably the result of the decoives reactions similar to the bituminous mineral or substance found in Victoria

Latitude 25 degrees 14out of sandy Triodia desert (May 29th) : 5, Quartz; 6, Chalcedony; 7, Quartz; 8, Silky Shale (Silurian); 9, very Micaceous Schist (Silurian)

Latitude 25 degrees 40 rees 35 inous rock (Tertiary); 11, portion of a seahtly micaceous rock (Silurian); 13, white rees 39 rees 40 minutes East : This rock was broken off the face of the side of a bank of brook

It is rather soft, and would split; it is all in layers I cut my initials in it with a chisel : Purple brown slate (Silurian)

Latitude 25 degrees 40 rees 20 rassy country running froenerally coh quartzite (congloh quartzite hite band, brown and purple (Tertiary)

Latitude 25 degrees 32 rees 17 ently undulating desert

(July 5th) : White flinty rock; consists in the nesia and Alumina; it also contains water and traces of the Alkalies

It is probably derived froes” are perhaps granitic

Latitude 26 degrees 6 rees 46 ) : Translucent greenish quartz Irees 2 rees 27 minutes East : This sandstone is the usual rock found in all the country frorees 30 round is composed of it Very often one side of the rise for line of cliffs withfroht red sandstone (desert sandstone, Tertiary)

Latitude 26 degrees South, Longitude 126 degrees 30 raph line; good grassy country in flats The dark piece froust 8th) : 20, Silico felspathic rock inated with Micaceous iron (probably froreen schist (Silurian)

Latitude 26 degrees 12 h Ranges Many ranges (August 17th) : Greenstone (Diabase ?)

Latitude 26 degrees 18 rees 9East and West, and grassy flats between theust 26th) Mount Jane : Aphanite

NOTE BY THE EDITOR