50 APPENDIX. 



The following is a section of it, and the overlying and under- 

 lying strata : — 



ft. in. 

 Brown sandstones, a great thickness. 



Blue shale, about 12 



Coal, 3i inches to 4 



Blue sandy shale. 

 Sandstone. 



The strata and coal dip about 7i° to the east, 20° south. 



No other seam of coal has been seen, either higher up or 

 lower down the creek, although there are excellent natural sec- 

 tions exposed to view in several places here, as well as in other 

 parts of the district ; it is therefore useless to expect to find a 

 payable seam of coal in this locality. 



The place is one of those described by people inexperienced in 

 such matters as giving " good indications," and money has been 

 uselessly expended in driving in a 3|--inch coal, with the hope of 

 its becoming thicker when further developed. It was also sup- 

 posed to be a " good indication" of finding a thick and payable 

 coal below, although they could see no coal underneath it in the 

 natural exposed sections of sti'ata lower down the creek, and 

 consequently will find none by sinking or boring. 



LOTJTIT BAY TO STO>'T CREEK, ALONG THE COAST. 



Excellent natural exposed cliff" sections are to be seen here, and 

 they show us that there are considerably more than 1,000 feet of 

 sandstones, with shale very similar to those at Barrabool Hills, 

 and on the Blue Mountain and Strzelecki Eanges, in Western 

 Port, in which there is no coal of any value, the thickest being 

 about 5 inches. 



A shaft has been sunk and a borehole put down by the Colac 

 Company to the depth of about 120 feet, on " good indications," 

 and money expended in piercing strata similar to that exposed 

 to view in natural cliff sections adjacent to where the borehole 

 was made. 



Thin irregular patches of coal, called " good indications," are 

 to be seen in the cliff" sections, and also, at low water, in the rocks 

 outcropping on the beach, the shaft and borehole only going 

 through the same strata as are seen in the cliff's. 



STOXT CEEEK, NEAE AIEET's INLET. 



I went down a shaft 45 feet deep, at the bottom of which a 

 place has been driven about five yards in an inferior bed of lignite 

 18 inches in thickness. Other shafts have been sunk through 

 the upper portion of the lignite deposit, and in one of them 4 

 feet of inferior lignite and sandy shale have been cut through. 



.1 was unable to measure a section of the diff"erent strata be- 

 tween the upper 4-feet bed of lignite and sandy shale, and the 



