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we shall see these collieries raising a much larger quantity of 
coal, and no doubt other mines opened out between here and 
Piper’s Plat. The coal is used by the Grovernment on their 
railway, and it’ they only reduced the rate of carriage for coal to 
Sydney and the suburbs, the consumption of coal in that direc- 
tion would be very largely increased. It is well liked in Sydney 
for household purposes by many who I hear are in the habit of 
using it. 
This is a section of the same seam of coal where it has 
decreased to 5 feet 0| inch in thickness. It is situated on land 
belonging to Campbell Mitchell, Esq., opiiosite the Bowenfels 
Eailway Station, at a distance of about 97 miles by rail from 
from Sydney and the harbour of Port Jackson. It is a splint 
coal similar to that before described, and is suitable for similar 
purposes, and the position of it is shown by letter Y on plan No. 4. 
Grey post. 
ft. in. 
Coal 
1 2 
Fireclay, full of vertebraria. 
This denotes a section of the same seam of coal at Z, on plan 
No. 4, where it has decreased from over 10 feet in thickness to 
1 foot 2 inches, which is no uncommon occurrence either here, 
in England, or any other coal country. 
