130 Coal- Seams of Van DiemerHs Land. 



lislied in the Transactions of the Eoyal Society of Van 

 Diemen's Land, Vol. I., Part I. 



As I only paid a very hasty visit, and to a limited portion 

 of the valley of the Apsley, I can merely state that all the 

 evidence I saw led me to form a very favourahle opinion as 

 regards the existence in it of workable seams of Coal. 



The general dip of the carboniferous strata where seen 

 near the Township of Llandaflf is in the same direction as 

 at the Douglas River Coal Company's works — viz., E. 10° 

 S. ; and they would he nearly on the same geological 

 horizon as the sandstones which are there found overlaying 

 the Coal-seams. 



They are, however, not continuous as between the two 

 points ; and about one mile from the coast there runs a low 

 ridge forming the watershed between the Denison Rivulet 

 and other Creeks running to the eastward, and the Apsley, 

 which runs south to Moulting Bay. 



To the southward and eastward towards the Township of 

 Bicheno this ridge is composed of granite, and to the north- 

 ward entirely of greenstone, — thus completely separating 

 the carboniferous strata of the Douglas and the Apsley. 



About one mile westward from the Township of Bicheno, 

 at the junction of the granite with the greenstone, a low gap 

 occurs in the ridge through which the road from the Apsley 

 to the east coast now passes, and which would afford an easy 

 line for the construction of a tramway for the conveyance 

 to the shipping at Waubs Harbour of any Coals which may 

 eventually be discovered in the valley of the Apsley. 



That such do exist has already been shown by Dr. Milli- 

 gan in the Report before referred to ; and it now remains to 

 prove their thickness and extent, which can only be accom- 

 plished by a series of borings, — the sites for which should 



