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the 4-feet seam appears in the cliff in South Cape Bay, 

 and in a direction nearly east from it, two shafts have been 

 sunk ; but in neither have the projectors carried their 

 operations through the greenstone to the coal, which, at 

 that point, I should reckon to be rather more than 400 

 feet below the grass, as it is termed. 



A fruitless attempt has also been made to sink to the 

 coal upon the marshes between Recherche Bay and the 

 South Cape Bay, but nearest the former ; and if I am 

 right in my conjecture, that the seam formerly worked 

 in the northern part of Recherche forms a portion of the 

 South Cape basin, then the shaft begun in these marshes 

 must be at a point where the coal is about its greatest 

 depth from the surface. At the same time, the marshes 

 are but a few feet above high water-mark ; and there was, 

 therefore, the advantage of having no elevated ground 

 to penetrate. 



It appears scarcely necessary to say more regarding a 

 coal-field which must remain comparatively valueless to 

 the Colony until the coals of better quality, and more easily 

 accessible, of which there is already something known in 

 other parts of the Island, are more or less exhausted. 



A Map and Section accompany this Report. 



I have the honour to be, 



Sir, 



Your very obedient Servant, 



JOSEPH MILLIGAN. 



The Honourable 



The Colonial Secretary, 



