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No. IV. 



RICHMOND AND JERUSALEM. 



Hohart Town, V^th February, 1849. 

 Sir, 



After having revisited Richmond and Jerusalem, 

 and examined the coal of these localities, in accordance 

 with the wishes of His Excellency the Lieutenant- 

 Governor, I have the honor to transmit the following 

 observations on the same, to be laid before His Excel- 

 lency. 



The Richmond coal crops out in the western bank 

 of the Coal River, amid a series of beds of greyish 

 sandstone. The situation is upon the estate of a de- 

 ceased Mr. Butcher, about one mile from a point in the 

 estuary of the river, where vessels of 20 tons burthen 

 used to load, and nearly the same distance from the 

 Hobart Town road, where it passes through the town- 

 ship of Richmond. 



The coal has been worked by a drift carried from the 

 water's edge into the steep face of the river's bank, ob- 

 liquely to the line of dip ; but the works have long been 

 abandoned, in consequen(;p of their having been inun- 

 dated from the river during a flood. 



The dip of the beds is to west south west, and at the 

 rate of about one foot in three or four. 



An attempt has been made to win the coal by sink- 

 ing a shaft a few yards from the margin of the river ; 



