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expended between £12,000 and £14,000 in improving their boat 

 harbour, in boats, shipping coal, and proving the seams, but the 

 impossibility of transporting the coals at any reasonable cost put 

 success out of the question." 



At Barrabool Hills, near Greelong, Mr. Thomas spent £8,000 

 in sinking and boring. This spot was examined by myself in 

 1856 ; the depth reached was 600 feet, and all that had been dis- 

 covered was a 6-iuch layer of coal. 



The ISTewton and Chilwell Prospecting Association (as I am 

 informed by a proprietor) expended at least £2,000 in their 

 operations, reaching a depth of 1,150 feet. 



The Grriffiths Point Company expended, in addition to the 

 Grovernment grant of £888 10s. 6d., the sum of £444 5s. 3d., 

 making for that adventure £1,332 15s. 9d. 



Collating these statements, we have the sum of nearly £31,000 

 sterliug, as the cost, up to the times fixed, of the particular 

 localities enumerated. What may have been the expenditure in 

 other places does not appear. 



As to some of the researches, I may mention, as a proof that 

 I have not spoken of the Yictorian coal simply from what I have 

 read, that the directors of the Newton and Chilwell Association 

 placed in my hands sections of the borings, together with the 

 materials brought up, so that I was enabled to judge for myself. 



The Company working on the Bass Kiver also consulted me, and 

 furnished me with plans and charts, &c. ; and the same oppor- 

 tunity was afforded me by the Company at work in the Grlenelg 

 district, near Coleraiue. 



I may say here, briefly, in each case I was compelled to state 

 that I recognized nothing approaching to the data that could be 

 furnished bj" the coal seams of Newcastle or the lUawarra, and 

 that I concluded no such strata would be reached except at very 

 great depths, and then only if not cut out by intrusive or bed 

 rocks of other formations. 



In all these beds from Victoria I saw no trace of our distin- 

 guished plant GJossopteris, nor has it ever been recognized by any 

 geologist or paloeontologist in that Colony. But it exists in New 

 South Wales in the Hunter Eiver beds, both below and above 

 the marine fossiliferous beds among the workable coal seams ; 

 and also in the sandstone at Muree, abounding in the marine 

 fossils of Lower carboniferous age, in which a Conularia and a 

 variety of fossils are seen with the remains of a Glossopteris that 

 must have been washed into the sea when the marine beds were 

 being deposited. 



The marine fossils of that locality were figured by Professor 

 M'Coy, from the collection sent by me to the late Professor 

 8edgwiek of Cambridge. (Annals of Natural History, vol. xx., 

 1847, 1st Series. See also 2nd Series, September, 18±8, and 3rd 

 Serie.?, August, 1862.) 



