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I learn also, from the examination of both Fauna and Flora, 
specimens of which were in my possession before Mr. Daintree 
had visited Queensland, that the former contains the identical 
zoic on the Bowen riv 
The coal seams on the Bowen river are of variable thiekness, 
but a ten-foot seam has been notice 
r, Gould, in his Report to the Government of Tasmania, 
October, 1861, also states that the Mersey river worked coal 
seam belongs to the formation with the same marine fossils as 
in Queensland, and on the Hunter in New South Wales. 
aving visited the Tasmanian locality for the purpose of 
inspection, I can confirm all that has been stated respecting the 
occurrence of the marine Paleozoic fossils, Orthonota, Spirifera, 
Fenestella, Pachydomus, Theca, &c., in association with and 
immediately above the coal. 
So far, then, the question about the age of some of the 
Australian coal must be considered as settled ; and if, as in 
Illawarra, the coal beds overlie the marine beds, as they do 
also in the Fingal district of Tasmania, it would appear that 
all these separate occurrences belong to one thick series, in 
which marine beds and fresh-water beds interpolate each other. 
But, assuredly, in that case, the arrangement adopted must 
express the order as follows :— 
pper coal measures. 
3. Upper marine beds. 
2. Lower coal measures. 
Lower marine 
So far as I ktiow, the latter rest frequently on a conglomerate, 
fail, in Tasmania I found to contain undoubted Carboniferous 
OSS: 
ince the Exhibition of 1862, on which occasion, in a — 
on the Coal Fields, I noticed "the occurrence of Oil- 
Cannel Coal at the foot of Mount York, and at Colley Creek 
in a the Liverpool Ranges (not on eastern waters), t former 
been in great request for the purpose of. prod ucing illun 
ting oils ; and the produce has been feoaste into the market. 
ie the former locality, and in Burragorang, I have made some 
recent researches, sack have satisfied me that these can only 
belong to the Upper coal measures, for they bear distinct evi- 
dence in the fronds of Glossopteris, which are very clearly 
iuapaeeed upon the beds at Mount York ; whilst at Burrago- 
