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and rapidly inci’eased ; and when the proposed extra shipping 
appliances are completed at Newcastle and vessels can have rapid 
despatch, our trade Avill undoubtedly increase at a much greater 
rate than it is even now doing. 
SECTIOJfS TAKEN ACROSS THE LoWER COAE MEASURES AT 
Stroud, in the county or Gloucester. 
I annex longitudinal sections (see sections Nos. 17, IH, 19) of 
the AVard Eiver, Karuah Elver, and Mammc Johnson strata and 
seams of coal, and a longitudinal sections (section No. 20) of the 
provings made at Smith’s Creek by the Australian Agricultural 
Company, in whicli we find Lepidodendron, Knorria, Calamites, 
Stigmaria, Otopteris, Phyllotheca, Conularia, Fenestella, Producta, 
and Crinoidea, &c., with thick beds of crinoidal limestone and 
sandstone full of pahuozoic fossil fauna resting on Silurian rocks. 
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