60 Fingal and East Coast. 



the coal strata crops out, more or less inclined, and 

 dipping- at various points to north west, west, south west, 

 and even to south south east. 



It is often thickly dotted with patches of carbonaceous 

 matter, and interstratified with layers of lignite and an- 

 thracitic coal. Of both, several seams, two or three feet 

 in thickness, present themselves, surrounded with beds 

 of clay and flaggy sandstone, upon the estate of Mr. John 

 Lyne. Upon Mr. Meredith's farm, between the town- 

 ship of Llandaff and the East Coast, a seam of strong 

 combustible coal, of bright dark colour and cubical 

 structure, shows itself to the thickness of 30 inches in the 

 bank and bed of a creek, where it is overlaid by loose 

 gravel, and reposes on whitish schistose clay ; conveying 

 the impression that the upper portion of the seam has 

 been accidentally removed, and that by tracing it back 

 under the loose bank it may be recovered in its original 

 magnitude. 



A gentleman residing in the neighbourhood undertook, 

 at my request, to lay this scam open ; but he reports that 

 he has failed in obtaining any increase of thickness. 

 Should a thick seam of good coal exist there, as I am 

 still inclined to conclude, it must be very valuable ; for 

 the locality is within five or six miles of Wabbs' Bay, 

 and the land carriage, trifling in amount, would be 

 through a perfectly level country. 



Several months ago 1 discovered, resting on a site of 

 clay-schists and shales, the remnant of a seam of good 

 bituminous coal, over which lay a thick bed of diluvial 

 gravel, intermixed with large greenstone boulders. This 

 was about two miles southerly from the Douglas River, 

 about the same distance inland, and certainly not more 

 than six miles from Wabbs' Harbour. No doubt a 

 closer sci'utiny of the locality, with the devotion of a suf- 

 ficient amount of time to the work, would detect the 



