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APPENDIX. 
Description of Coal Seams at Mount Kembla, near Wollon- 
gong, by E. W. Moody, Esq,, Mining Engineer. 
Locality, &c. 
This coal field is situated about 5 miles in a south-westerly 
direction from AVollongoug, in the county of Cumberland, New 
South AYales, being on the same line of ranges as the Bulli, 
Mount Pleasant, and Mount Keira Coal properties, and the top 
seam in Mount Kembla series, being identical with the cele- 
brated steam coal seam worked so successfully at those collieries 
for so many years. 
The various coal seams, as per ^‘section of measures” appended, 
are seen cropping out in the slopes of the Mount Kembla 
Eanges, and are found very nearly level, rising slightly into the 
mountain, and are at very convenient distances from each other, 
the bottom seam being nearly on a level with the lands, over 
which a line of permanent railway may be very economically 
constructed, by means of which the produce of the mines, tfcc. 
may be conveyed to the port of AYollongong, for shipment at the 
Government coal shoots already in use there by the Mount 
Pleasant and Mount Keira Coal Companies ; or a private ship- 
ping place could easily be constructed about a mile south of 
Wollongong, at a moderate cost, wliich I believe would meet all 
the requirements of a very large output, besides being able to 
form a junction with the proposed “ Sydney and Illawarra” Line 
of Eailway, which I have little doubt will soon be commenced, 
and which wiU admit of the produce of the mines being sent to 
Sydney for shipment and for home consumption. 
Quantities — No. 1 Seam. 
The highest in the series, or “ Bulli Seam,”^ is 7 feet thick of 
fine clean coal without any bands or refuse, in fact I have not 
seen this seam so good in any part of the AVollongong District, 
the quality of which, especially for steam purposes, is I think too 
well known to need any comment in a report of this kind. 
I believe that at least 500 acres of the estate will contain this 
fine seam of coal, which I estimate will yield 5,285,000 tons of 
marketable coal — sufficient for an output of 500 tons per day 
for over thirty-five years, 
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