175 
At the bottom of the underlie shaft the section is as follows 
In. 
0 
4 
44 
Ft. 
0 
0 
0 
0 
in. 
3 
2 
6 
8 
First f good 
Coal I Black shale ... 
^Coal, good 
Black shale ... 
Second and third coals, brittle, anthracitic, 12 inches thick at 
end of shaft, although interrupted by 8 inche.s of shalo 
3 feet from end ^ 
Colleague has recognised among my collection 
^esemhlLir th7i-7'''’ Silicified wood, very much 
g hat from the Upper Bowen Formation, is also common. 
position haviift^^bp^'^^'* occurs in a somewhat peculiar 
’"'aches ’slater “ ^ T “Ao the midst of an older series of gi-ey- 
‘'°a>preUion thnTT f i’ subjected to such a degree of laterL 
of Desert Sand f inclined at high angles, it was covered over by a cake 
tributary of ® subsequently cut through by the Little Eiver (a 
ry ot the Kennedy), exposing the Coal-Measures and older stratified rocks. 
andfirecln^r^^rri!’^^'”^? ®trata consist mainly of blue and dark shales, gritty sandstones, 
^^other eilhf r coal-seams are numerous and thick. One is twenty feet in thickness, 
feet each t’"'" feet each, two are six feet each, and four are three 
f'’Om the firtf f “Appear to have been, 
Matter drivpp’ sediment, and to have had much of their volatile 
ven oft by the pressure which resulted in the uptilting of the beds 
^^alysed byThe near Bower-bird Gully, was 
y tne late Mr. Karl Staiger as follows : — 
Moisture, with a little gas ,g.go 
Carbon 
Ash . 

I ami j 100-00 
I'esult samples from an eight-feet seam on Dave Creek, with the following 
Water ... 
Volatile hydrocarbons... 
Fixed carbon ... 
Ash 
0-919 
9-388 
58-606 
31-087 
100-00 
Kg„ ,, . . Specific gravity, 1-37. 
is seen with the St. George Eiver the following 
' seen ; 
Coal, good ' I’t- >“• 
Bark-grey shales 
^oal, good ... 
Bark shales 
Coal^^f carbonaceous ironstone 
shales 
^ark gnarled shales 
sandstones, with a few' bands’ of oolitic iMnston'e 
o 3 inches), and impressions of fossil trees 20 0 
0 
0 
0 
1 
0 
0 
0 
0 
7 
6 
7 
0 
3 
7 
4 
3 
