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This represents a section of the seams of coal formerly worked 
by the Honorable Bourne Bussell, at Stony Creek (see 0 on plan 
No. 1), and now by Mr. Harpur, for household purposes, in Mait- 
land and the surrounding districts. 
Here we have splint, bituminous, and cannel coals, with lower 
carboniferous (palaeozoic) fossil fauna in the shales and rocks 
above and below these seams of coal, wliich Avill be hereinafter 
referred to. The coal and strata dip at the rate of 1 ni 2| to the 
south-east, which makes these seams of coal more difficult and 
expensive to work than those before described. 
The coal is of very good quality, and suitable tor all purposes. 
The quantity sold in 1874 was 500 tons, valued at £300, and 
the number of men employed, 7. 
