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former years yielded from 1,000 to 10,000 tons per annum, but they 

 are capable of yielding a very much larger quantity. For this pur- 

 pose a new company has been recently formed, and guided by the 

 best authorities and supported by ample means, they will avail them- 

 selves of the highest skill, and adopt the most approved modern 

 appliances, which, with their large resources, will enable them to 

 work the collieries more extensively than has hitherto been 

 attempted. Time alone will tell how far they may succeed ; at all 

 events, the spirit of enterprise that prompted the undertaking de- 

 serves the sympathy and hearty support of all who love their country, 

 and are interested in the development of its mineral resources, and 

 the advancement of its native industries. It is to be hoped that 

 the next time the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club visit the collieries 

 of Tyrone, the works of the several companies will be in a most 

 flourishing condition. 



On Saturday, 7th June, to 



CARNMONEY, &c. 



A goodly number of members assembled at the appointed ren- 

 dezvous — The Ulster Hall — and on suitable vehicles left town by 

 the Antrim Road. The first halt was called near the Whitewell, 

 where the whole party examined the interesting geological features 

 of the place. The road is here very unstable and shifting, having 

 been originally formed on a talus slipped down from the cliffs above, 

 over the surface of the Lias and New Red Marls, and the pressure 

 of the vast masses of tumbled-over chalk and trap taxes the skill 

 of the " surface men " to keep the road in tolerable order. After 

 a ramble through the fields the party met at the parish church, 

 and went off together to the adjoining quarry, where there occurs a 

 peculiar scoriaceous form of trap with chalcedony and iron pyrites, 

 and several good samples were secured. 



Ascending the hill the party next scrambled up to Dunanney 



