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1859 by the Waihoihoi Company. The coal is brown-coal, and con- 
tains a fossil resin, Ambrite (Haidinger), which has often been mistaken 
for Kauri gum. The Price of this brown coal in Auckland is 30 to 
32 s. per ton. The shales and sandstones accompanying the coal con- 
tain bivalves and leaves of dicotyledones: Fagus Ninnisiana Ung. , Feigns 
dubium Ung. , Myrtifolium lingua Ung. etc. 
b) The coal-fields of the Lower Waikato Basin ( Province Auckland). A seam 
of great thickness has been laid open near Kupakupa on the northern 
slope of the Hakarimata, range. 
c) The coal-beds on the western and southern borders of the Middle Wai- 
kato Basin, as yet wholly untouched. 
I also enumerate under this head: 
d) Various, hitherto little noticed, localities of brown coal in the North 
of the Province Auckland, on Manganui Harbour (Doubtless Bay), 
near Rodney Point, on Cape Colville Peninsula close by Coromandel 
Harbour etc.; in the South, on the Mokau and Wanganui Rivers. 
Upon South Island: 
e) Jenkins' coal-mine at Ennerglyn near Nelson. The strata have been 
greatly disturbed here; the coal-seam is crusted; in a ferruginous sand- 
stone are imbedded leaves of dicotyledon plants: Phyllites Nelsonianus 
Ung., Phyllites Brosinoides Ung., Phyllites quercioides Ung., Phyllites 
eucalyptroides Ung., Phyllites leguminositcs Ung. 
f) Motupipi coal-field on Golden Bay (Prov. Nelson), opened since 1854; 
and the brown-coal beds on Rangiheta Point West of Motupipi. In the 
coal Ambrite is contained as at Drury. 
g) Throughout the provinces of Canterbury and Otago similar coal-deposits 
occur, and more especially in the valleys or beds of the Selvyn, Rakaia, 
Rangitata, Ashburton and other rivers in Canterbury; and near Fair- 
field, on Saddle Hill, on the Tokomairiro, Clutha river, in the Waita- 
huna and Wetherstone- flats etc. in Otago. Marketplace of this coal in 
Dunedin £ 2 per ton (according to Dr. Lindsay). 
II. Marine Strata. Upper series. 
At the base frequently foraminiferous clayey strata alternating with 
sandy banks, — these strata perhaps coeval with the brown-coal beds 
— towards the top tabular limestones and sandstones, abounding in fossils. 
Ecliinodermes : Brissus, Schizaster, Jlemipatagus , Nucleolites etc. Brachiopodes : 
Waldheimia, Terebratula , Terebratulma. Conchiferae : Ostrea , Lima , Pecten, 
Cucullaea . Gastropodes: Neritopsis, Scalaria. Shark's teeths, foram in Terse, 
and bryozoes. 
