90 Report on the Coal said to have been found 
Mus. The whole Mammals of Tasmania may then be 
classed thus :— 
CHA DR ORTH RA: c.ccesotcccorsesn Sages 3 
CARNIVORA (Seals) eee. 3 
CR PACH Ai csc vaneties acter cee een Meee 5 
HEV ODE NIDA 0 or Coe ss ase eee ee et eee 6 
IVES UPTATAAS leccceccene eae eee ene een 19 
INFONO TRE MATA)... pee teen ener ie conan 2 
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Penquite, 1st September, 1851. 
X. Report on the Coal said to have been found at the 
Don River, and upon the West Bank of the Tamar River, 
in Tasmania. By JosePpH Mitiican, Esq, F.L.S. 
[Read 9th July, 1851.] 
Hobart Town, 11th June, 1851. 
Sr1r,—I have the honour to report that, in obedience to in- 
structions from His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, I 
recently proceeded to the Mersey and Don Rivers to examine 
the tract of country there on which Coal was said to have 
been found ; and that I also devoted a week to the examina- 
tion of both banks of the Tamar, from Whirlpool Reach 
downwards, with reference to a surmise of Coal existing 
there. 
The entrance to the Mersey River, which is not wide, lies 
open and exposed to the full sweep of the winds, and has but 
little shelter from the roll of the sea directly in from Bass’s 
Strait. There is a bar well out to seaward, which is said to 
