64 Fingal and East Coast, 



of 15 inches of clay and shale with which it is inter- 

 mingled. 



About 100 feet lower in the series of beds, and in the 

 course of the same creek, there crops out a 20-inch 

 seam of black shaly coal of inferior quality. Another 

 seam crops out about 100 feet above the level of the 

 plain in the same creek ; but it is very thin, and 

 extremely hard, and, though bituminous, is of no value. 

 The series of beds in this creek consists of greyish 

 sandstone and schistose clays, with shale and coal, and it 

 extends to a vertical thickness of about 700 feet. 



About a quarter of a mile to the westward there is a 

 creek, in the course of which, at a point bearing west by 

 south or west from the outcrop of the main seam just 

 described, and at a level 180 or 200 feet lower, there 

 occurs a seam of coal Sg feet in thickness. This seam 

 yields a coal of a slaty structure and varying quality, 

 though it is bituminous throughout. 



Notwithstanding the difference between the thickness 

 of this and that of the main seam referred to, and the 

 want of correspondence in their line of dip, I incline to 

 think that, when fairly opened into, they will prove to 

 be the same, and that the difference in level has been 

 caused by some partial displacement or local undulation 

 of the strata. 



In the bed of a creek about two miles east from that in 

 which the main seam occurs, I found, under several hun- 

 dred feet of massive sandstone, five seams of coal, varying 

 in thickness from 15 inches to 4 feet, and of quality as 

 various, but all more or less bituminous. 



These beds are far apart in the formation, and when 

 worked, it must be as separate seams, and, of course, at 

 comparatively great cost. They are thin compared with 

 Stieglitz's main seam ; and, being only two miles nearer the 

 coast upon a distance of twelve, they scarcely demand 



