2 1 8 Mines and Mineral Statistics. 
The upper part of the seam is a splint coal, and the lower part 
a splint and bituminous coal ; the specific J?ravity of some pieces 
I tested from the lower part gave 1*32. It is situated about 50 
miles north of Sydney Harbour, and the coal is worked by an 
adit or heading driven into the seam of coal at a height of about 
8 feet above the level of the sea, and a jetty has been constructed 
from the mouth or entrance to the seam of coal out into the bay, 
where steam colliers come and take away the coal from the 
waggons filled by the men hewing coal in the mine. A village 
called Cowper, consisting of about 150 people, now exists on 
these once desolate ranges, and a dispensary, hotel, post office, 
stores, &c., are erected thereon. The quantity of coal shipped 
from here in 1874 amounted to 18,147 tons, valued at 
£11,795 11s., and the average daily number of miners and 
labourers employed when at work w'as eighty, and six boys. — 
J. B. Winship, Esq., is the Colliery Viewer; and T. H. Hale, Esq., 
the Secretary. 
