CoaUSeams of Van Diemen^s Land. 129 



The first is situated on a line bearing N. 15° W. from 

 the '' Old Goal Shafts," and about 450 yards distant. 



The others are about two miles higher up the Kivulet, 

 where all the beds are again overlaid as in the Douglas, by- 

 enormous masses of fallen greenstone. 



At the first-mentioned point the section PI. Ill , fig. 3, 

 is seen. 



In the shaft A, commenced on the bank about 35 feet 

 above the level of the Creek, five or six seams of Coal were 

 cut in something less than 50 feet. 



Two of these are seen partly exposed in the river bank 

 below the shaft : they dip at a low angle in the direction 

 from A to B, or down the Creek ; and at the latter point 

 about 300 yards distant from A, a bore-hole B was com- 

 menced for the purpose of further proving these seams. It 

 was, however, carried 290 feet without cutting a single 

 seam, and passed the entire depth through brown and grey 

 sandstone rock. 



On examining the strata exposed in the bed of the 

 Creek from A to B, the cause of this is apparent ; the ver 

 tical strata seen at C indicating the existence and position 

 of an extensive dislocation of the beds. 



Whether the sandstones passed through in the bore-hole 

 B are above or below the Coal-seams at A, there is not here 

 sufficient evidence to determine ; nor is at all certain what 

 position they occupy relatively to the two seams which have 

 been cut in the " Old Coal Shafts" on the south side of the 

 Creek. 



Much more ample details of the general geological features 

 of this district, including the valleys of the Apsley and South 

 Esk, than I am able to furnish, are given in Dr. Milligan's 

 "' Report on the Coals of Fingal and the East Coast," pub- 



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