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They also had two men for several months in 1874, prospecting 
and driving in the petroleum oil cannel coal 18 indies in thick- 
ness, belonging to them at the Sugar Loaf, at Mount Victoria, in 
the county of Cook. The drives are ou the edge of the deposit. 
The centre, being covered by high sandstone ranges, cannot be 
proved without driving the adits a long distance. 
Coal Lands in the Western District, prospected previous 
TO 1874. 
The Honble. John Lucas and Sir Jas. IMartin and others liave 
a considerable area of coal land at Pulpit Hill near the Great 
Western Kail way, at a distance of about 65 miles from Sydney, 
where very thick and good seams of coal have been opened out ; 
and at Megalow, near Pulpit Hill, Messrs. Mitchell, Mort, and 
Brown have land with very rich petroleum oil cannel upon it. 
Plan (No. 5) op New South Wales Coal Field and 
Sections. 
I annex a plan (No. 5) of the New South Wales Coal Fields, 
as far as I know and have traced the boundary. 
The area shown thereon is about 15,419 square miles, which I 
consider once formed one large coal basin, and that since its 
formation upheavals and disturbances of the strata, near the edge 
of the basin has there thrown it into a series of anticlinal and 
synclinal curves. See sketch section (No. G) drawn for the 
purpose of illustration, and also to show the position of different 
fossil flora and fauna found in our upper, middle, and lower coal 
measures. 
Sections No. 7 to No. 16 are ten vertical sections I have taken of 
the upper coal measures, and the places where the measurements 
were taken are shown on the plan (No. 5) above referred to by 
letters similar to those on the top of the sections. 
Without any exaggeration, we can undoubtedly claim to be in 
possession of the richest, most accessible, and most extensive 
Coal Fields in the Southern Hemisphere, which must ultimately 
make New South Wales the greatest and richest of all the 
Australian Colonies ; and we know the value of them, and hoAV 
much as a nation Great Britain has to depend upon her collieries 
for her great and national prosperity. Our bituminous, semi- 
bituminous, splint, anthracite, and "cannel coals are equal in 
thickness and in quality to any found in other parts of the World, 
and we have numerous deposits of petroleum oil cannel coal, 
some of them superior to any yet found elsewhere. During the 
last few years the growth of our coal trade has most satisfactorily 
