432 Miscellaneous—H. P. Woodward. 
MIiSCHUiLANHOVUsS. 
Coat anD Trin Discoveries IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 
Mr. Harry P. Woopwarp, F.G.S8., Government Geologist for 
Western Australia, sends some interesting particulars of both coal 
and tin discoveries in that colony. He writes :— 
‘‘ From Vasse I made for the Lower Blackwood River Bridge, 
over the foot of the Darling Range, and so on to the Donelly River. 
On the south coast, where a small stream flows out, called the Fly 
Brook, coal has been found of a very good quality, but there is no 
port nearer than Albany or Vasse, and this latter is not a good one. 
There seems to be a line of coal-bearing country between the coast- 
range, which runs north and south from Cape Leeuwin to Cape 
Naturalist, and the main highlands, the southern continuation of the 
Darling Range, covered with sand and swamps at the surface, but 
under these I believe we shall find Coal-measures which may in fact 
extend west beneath Perth to the Irwin River, but this can only be 
tested by deep-borings. 
“There was nothing to be seen of the coal or rocks, as they are 
boring with a ‘jumping-drill,’ which reduces everything to mud, 
but there is one 5ft. seam and several smaller, averaging 17ft. of 
coal in 200 feet of rock. ‘There are two or three outcrops in the bed 
of the Creek of a much weathered but good coal, some of which is 
highly bituminous. From Bridgetown I went to Albany, and thence 
east 200 miles to the Phillips River, and saw the Fitzgerald Coal- 
field. This is only brown-coal or lignite of no value, but there is 
some good-looking gold-bearing country near it.” 
'l'in-onE.—In reference to the Tin-discoveries Mr. H. P. Woodward 
writes :— 
“From Bunbury I went towards the Upper Blackwood, to a place 
called Bridge-town, where tin has been met with : little work has been 
done yet, but, as far as 1 am able to judge, it seems to indicate the 
biggest thing of the kind that has ever been found. One shaft 18ft. 
deep will ‘ wash’ all the way down at about four or five lbs. to the 
pan, and they have not got to the bottom of it yet. The richest 
works in other Colonies are rarely more than two or three feet deep. 
Tin has been found at the surface, in the sand, over an area of about 
100 square miles; but no sinking, except the one shaft, has yet been 
made; and as the surface is covered, either with sand or clay-iron- 
stone, the formation cannot be seen at all. The late Mr. Hdward T. 
Hardman, F.G.S., suggested that tin would be found here. The 
shaft shows a few inches of soil or alluvium with gravel containing 
tin, where it was first found, resting on hard masses of clayey 
ferruginous sandstone, about one foot thick, then coarse quartz-grit 
with stream-tin and tourmalines and a few ‘colours’ of gold. 
17ft. not gone through yet, as there was too much water: about % in 
weight being tin-ore.” 
Errarum.—In the first part of Messrs. Wilson and Crick’s paper 
on the ‘‘ Lias Marlstone of Tilton,” in the July Number, pp. 296-305, Hast Norton 
was by mistake stated to be in the county of Rutland instead of Leicester. 
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