fi6 Fingal and East Coast. 



many feet in width, variously veined and intermingled 

 with calcareous spar ; and it exhibits within the same 

 space several centres of elevation, from which the beds 

 dip to every side. 



I have roughly estimated the direct distance of this 

 crop of coal from the mouth of the Douglas River at 

 four miles ; and that a road sweeping under the shoulder 

 of the hill on which Nicholas's Cap is placed, and thence 

 diagonally to Long Point, might reach the shipping 

 place withm about six miles. The elevation at which the 

 coal exists I consider to be 150 to 200 feet, — an amount 

 which would be highly advantageous to traffic, were it 

 regularly distributed along a line of half a dozen miles. 



Of the quality of the coal no more need be said 

 than that it is first-rate, and will be found fully equal to 

 any or all of the purposes to which the best English coal is 

 applied. With respect to the quantity available, I should 

 say, that though the beds undulate, and are evidently much 

 dislocated and broken up, the supply is, as compared 

 with any demand likely to be created in these colonies 

 in our time, inexhaustible ; and it is not to be forgotten 

 that the strata along the coast, from Long Point, 

 across the mouth of the Douglas River, to nearly op- 

 posite Diamond Island, give every indication of the 

 existence of seams of coal at an accessible depth, 

 which, if realised, would be in a position still more 

 convenient for shipment. 



This Report is accompanied with a coloured map, and 



a few sections of the coal and associated beds. 



I have the honor to be, 



Sir, 



Your most obedient Servant, 



JOSEPH MILLIGAN. 



The Honourable 



The Colonial Secretary, 



Sfc. 4rc. 



