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The following is a section of it at L on plan: — Alluvial, 2 feet ; 

 shale, 2 feet ; coal, 8 inches ; indurated clay, 8 inches ; coal, 1 

 foot 3 inches ; band, 1 inch ; coal, 5 inches ; total of coal, 2 feet 

 4 inches. 



The coal and strata are lying nearly horizontal, having only a 

 very slight inclination or dip towards the north-west. This coal 

 has a friable shale roof, which would make it expensive and 

 difficult to work, and as the owners of the lease have never 

 attempted to work it, but are boring below, in hopes of finding a 

 more workable seam, I presume that they, like myself, do not 

 consider that it could be worked to a profit. 



On the 28th ultimo, the lessees had bored a distance of 256 feet 

 below the above-mentioned coal, and the borer told me that the 

 strata gone through consisted of sandstones wdth grey and blue 

 shales, and no coal. 



My opinion is that they will have to bore at least 1,200 feet 

 before any other regular seams of coal will be met with, and that 

 they would then intersect those identical with the Eock and 

 Queen veins at Cape Patterson. (See general section, No. 2.) 



The rocks now being bored through at this place will probably 

 have junks and pieces of coal in them similar to those seen on the 

 coast between Sandy Waterholes and Kilcunda, and if any should 

 be found, a seam of coal will appear to have been struck, and will 

 no doubt be recorded as such. 



STOCKTABD CBEEK (hILL's PEOSPECTHiTQ- LEASE.) 



A very thin and inferior coal is outcropping in one place on a 

 creek on this lease, and a thin stratum of bituminous shale in 

 another. 



The latter was described to me by those interested in it as a 

 valuable seam of coal. The deposits lie at an angle of 18 deg. to 

 24 deg., and rest on Silurian rocks, which are to be seen about a 

 quarter of a mile lower down the creek. The following is their 

 measurement. (A sketch is here given of the first deposit, 

 showing a layer of sandstone, followed by inferior coal 9 in. to 1 ft., 

 after which is a stratum of very hard shale. In the case of the 

 second deposit, the strata came in the following order : — Very 

 hard shale 6 ft. in thickness, indurated clay and black bituminous 

 shale 3 in., black bituminous shale 2 in., stone 2 in., black shale.) 



How any one having the slightest pretensions to a knowledge 

 of coal-mining could ever look upon these as workable seams of 

 coal I am at a loss to understand ; for of all the rejDorted dis- 

 coveries of coal I have ever seen, here or elsewhere, during the 

 last twenty-five years, I never saw one of less promise. 



TEAEALG02f (n ON PLAN.) 



I was accompanied in my examination of the coal discoveries 

 here by Mr. Krause, Dr. Simmons (one of the Coal Committee), 



