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at a height of about 400 feet above the sea in the high ranges 
fronting the Pacific Ocean, where adits are driven into it, and an 
incline and tramway, 2 J miles in length, conveys the coal from 
the mine to the Company’s jetty, where steam colliers come 
alongside and receive the coal. (See plan No. 2). This Company 
sent away 58,506 tons of coal in 1874, and employed daily, when 
at work, eighty-five miners and sixty-five labourers and others. 
Mr. Eoss is the Colliery Manager, J. B. Winship, Esq., the Colliery 
Viewer, and Jas. Shoobert, Esq., the General Manager and Super- 
intendent. 
Grey post. 
Coal 
ft. in. 
7 6 
Fireclay. 
This is a section of the seam of coal worked at the Mount 
Pleasant Colliery, near Wollongong, in the county of Camden, 
situated 50 miles to the south of Port Jackson. It averages about 
7 feet 6 inches in thickness of clean coal, without any bands in 
it ; the average specific gravity is about 1'3 ; it bas an excellent 
rock roof and floor ; and the dip is about 1 in 30 to tbe west and 
north-west. 
It is a semi-bituminous coal, suitable for steam, household, 
smelting, blacksmith, and other purposes, and is^ by many cap- 
tains of vessels used in preference to the more bituminous coal 
of the Newcastle District, aud being a stronger coal the firebars 
have to be put further apart when using it. This is the No. I or 
uppermost seam of coal in the district (see letter II on plan No. 5 
and section No. 14), and is found outcropiping at a height of about 
600 feet above the sea level in the high ranges Ironting tbe Wollon- 
gongHarbour,whereaditsarcdrivenintoit,aud an incline aud tram- 
