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tinuous section of the sequence of the coal-bearing beds in a cliff 

 about 200 feet high, and along a distance of nearly half a mile. 

 The beds are affected by numerous faults. The coal is worked 

 between this point and Lake Macquarie, and the author gives the 

 following as the shaft section not far from the cliff : — 



Feet 



1 . Conglomerate - - - - - 23 



2. Coal - - - - - 3 



3. Cherts and gritstones with angular fragments of flint 



intermixed with thin veins of coal - - 41 



4. Coal - - - - - 5 



5. Clay rock of greyish colour and bluish shale with 



impressions of ferns - - - - 43 



6. Coal - - - - - - 5 



7. Greenish sandstone with blue veins - - - £5 



8. Coal - - - - - 3 



9. Greenish sandstone - - - - - 50 

 10. Coal - - - - - 3 



Inland and southwards the upper beds are seen to dip westward 

 under masses of variegated and fine-grained sandstone, conform- 

 able with the coal deposits. 



The South Esk Basin (V. D. Land), although much broken and 

 apparently very limited in extent, agrees with that of Newcastle 

 (N. S. W.) in its general geological characters. A variegated sand- 

 stone overlies the regular coal measures. 



The Jerusalem Basin (V. D. Land) is situated not far from 

 Hobart Town to the east. The underlying bed is a limestone, 

 containing Productce and S_pirife?*s, succeeded by a conglomerate, 

 on which the coal-measures repose. The beds dip to the south, 

 and the following is given as the shaft section of the Jerusalem 

 pits : — 











Feet 



1. 



Sandstone with impressions 



of ferns - 



_ 



• - 13 



2. 



Greenish sandstone 



. 



_ 



3 



3. 



Clay slate (? shale) 



- 



_ 



1 



4. 



Grey clay 



- 



. 



2 



5. 



Blackish clay with impressions of ferns 



- 



2 



6. 



Coal 



- 



.. 



3 



M 

 1 . 



Greyish clay 



- 



- 



- 12 



8. 



Blackish clay with ferns 



- 



- 



3 



9. 



Greyish clay 



„ 



_ 



- 11 



10. 



Blackish clay with ferns 



- 



- 



6 



11. 



Coal 



- 



- 



2 



Some of the coal in the Jerusalem Basin is described as anthra- 

 citic. 



Besides these localities the existence of coal is known at Port 

 Western (N. S. W.), (lat, 38'30° S., long. 145° W.), at Moreton Bay, 

 and at the head of the rivers Hastings and Mac Leay, north of 

 Newcastle. Partial outcrops have been also observed in the Vale 

 of Clywd, north of Mount York, and east of Mount Clarence. 

 These possibly belong to the Newcastle Basin. 



The fossil plants obtained from these coal-measures, and de- 



