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IV. On the Geology of Hobart Town

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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The island of Tasmania is connected, as it were, with the continent of Australia by two chains of islands, the lines of which are afterwards continued in the mountain-syatems both of Tasmania and Australia. The Tasmanian systems pass from north to south in a strangely zigzag course, throughout which the mineralogical character of the rocks varies considerably. The land, therefore, may be presumed to have once presented a very different line of contour to what it does at the present day.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1865

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page 492 note * For an explanation of the letters, see fig. 2.

page 494 note * See Note at the end.

page 495 note * I hare dwelt particularly upon the above facts, since they appear to bear so especially upon the question of the age of the Australian coal-deposits.