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Fig. 8.-Section at Dordrecht, on the Upper Stormberg, 5000 feet above the sea-level.

1. Greenstone or basalt.

2. Claystone.

3. Coarse-grained greyish sandstone.*

4. Hard grey shale.

5. Coarse, gritty, brownish sandstone.

6. Similar sandstone, with feruginous patches and nodules.

7. Quartzose grit, sometimes approaching a fine conglomerate.

8. Sandstone, with silicified trees.

9. Close-grained sandstone, with fossil roots &c.

10, 11, 12. Stratified clays:-10 yellowish, and 11 light grey, with abundance of Ferns, Paloeozomia, &c; 12 dark blue, with fewer Ferns &c.

a, a, a. Strata unknown.