APPENDIX. 45 



BLTJE MOUl!fTAIN. 



At a lieiglit of about 310 feet above the sea-level a l7-incli 

 seam of coal (see Gr on plan) is to be seen outcropping in the 

 side of a creek. It lies at an inclination of 28°, dips north 25° 

 west, has brown sandstones and shales above it, similar to those 

 at Klilcunda, and is, I believe, identical in geological position Avith 

 the 20-inch coal at that place. I consequently infer that no 

 other thicker seam of coal is likely to be found at a workable 

 depth in this locality. (See general section, No. 2.) 



It is too thin to be of any commercial value in such a position. 

 The following is its section: — Alluvial, 2 feet ; sandstone, 4 feet; 

 brown shale, 1 foot ; good coal, 1 foot 5 inches. 



CAPE PATTEESOIS". 



Here I find the coal measures intersected by numeroiis basaltic 

 dykes and faults, and the dip changing in inclination and direc- 

 tion at very short distances. 



The undulating or folding nature of the strata exposes the 

 basset edges of two seams of coal, exceeding 1 foot in thickness, 

 in three clifFerent places, at short distances apart. These might 

 make it appear to a casual observer that they were the outcrops of 

 three others, although they are really only the same again appear- 

 ing at the surface of the ground. 



Their measurements are shown in vertical section No. 3. 



I believe the Eock and Queen veins are identical in geological 

 position with those before mentioned, exposed in natural cliff 

 sections on Mr. TurnbuU's land at the Sandy "Waterholes. 



The quality of the coal is good, but the faulty nature of the 

 ground, the irregular and constantly changing dip, the thinness 

 of the beds of coal, and distance from a shipping port, prevent 

 its being worked at a profi.t. 



The average of three different measurements of the Eock vein 

 only gives 2 feet 4 inches of coal, which is divided by two bands 

 of clay, &c. ; and the average of three measurements of the 

 Queen vein gives 2 feet 2f inches of coal, intersected by no less 

 than three bands of shale, &c., although the Eock vein has been 

 called and reported to be a 4-feet coal, and the Queen vein a 

 3 feet 6 in. seam of coal. 



The numerous boreholes put down in this locality have proved 

 beyond doubt that there are no other payable seams of coal likely 

 to be found at a workable depth here. 



STBZELECKI (ll'CALL AND CO'S LEASE.) 



In a creek on these ranges, and at a height of about 660 feet 

 above the level of the sea, a seam of good coal is to be seen 

 exposed. The sandstones and shales lying over it are similar to 

 those at Kilcunda and the Blue Mountain, and I believe it to be 

 the same. coal as is found there. 



