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a dark grey band of carbonaceous matter under brown 

 sandstone beds, and immediately over grey sandstone, indi- 

 cates the probability of coal within. The remains of a low 

 and imperfectly formed horizontal driftway are visible, 

 from the inside of which it is said a sinking has been effected, 

 but no good coal is visible. It is alleged notwithstanding 

 that the 2-feet seam of coal, worked as I have described 

 near the dike of greenstone, was struck here. Of the 

 dip of this seam I could only judge by that of the ill- 

 compacted brownish-yellow sandstone, which barely 

 allowed the beds of massive grey to be recognized under 

 it : it appeared to be about south. 



In describing the workings formerly carried on in the 

 2-feet seam at the lower part of the creek, I have 

 omitted to state that, close to the entrance into the 

 main gallery, a well, now nearly full of water, remains 

 almost the only evidence of a shaft which at one time was 

 sunk there to the depth of 40 feet. It is said that in this 

 operation a second seam of two feet thick was cut through, 

 and that its quality was quite equal to that of the upper 

 2-feet seam. 



The colour of the Jerusalem coal varies from greyish 

 and dull black to shining jetty black : its structure is 

 slaty, with a tendency to cuboidal, and its cross fracture 

 flat or irregularly angular, which is nearly the description 

 given of it by the Count Strzelecki. 



After having examined the thick seam of cannel coal 

 at Fingal and Mount Nicholas, and the rich bituminous 

 seam at the Douglas River, I am of opinion that the 

 Jerusalem coal yields only in quality, if at all, to that 

 from the Douglas River, and that chiefly in caking 

 property. 



The Jerusalem coal ignites with extreme facility, and 

 burns with a bright clear flame, leaving an inconsiderable 

 proportion of light white ashes. As regards the econo- 



