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This coal on analysis, gave much better results than any of the thicker seams , 
in fact, it is one which, if of workable thickness, would take a high pkce among coal 
used for steam and smelting purposes. The following is the analysis . 
, ,, •• • " tOO 
Water ... ••• ••• ■ 26*197 
Volatile 
Fixed carbon 
Ash ... . ... ... ••• ••• 
100-00 
Specific grayity, 1'33. 
The only fossil from the Little Eiver determined by my Colleague is Glossopteris 
for th. .go ot .he O.h, Ceeek ..d Lit.le Ei«e 
deposits rested solely on the presence of Glossopteris, it would be of little 
that Glossopieris has been detected in beds as new as the Desert Sandstone ; but i 
beZe us. the coal-bearing beds are not only upturned, but are covered uncon 
formably by the Desert Sandstone itself. n- i Mr 
i 4otcs on .h. Geology ot Honn’, Eyloriog E.ped.t.on 
No„o.n T.,l« h.e obligingly furnished me, the '"‘'""“S ^ 
1(1 n-n the Mitchell Eiver (Camp 78 on the return 30urney), I found in tne ii^er u 
fittnnents and blocks of coal shales, with thin seams of bright coal, and on 
carefully I discovered pieces of a whitish indurated shale, containing indistinct p 
SLains aU an undoubted fragment of Glossoptcru. (The Jiales are Klentical wi h 
eome m the Bl- MouiE^^^^^^^^ South Wales, north . 
itv tbr-to%Td rise, consisting of horizontal white and grey shales and a cherty- 
looking rockflith fragments and stems of plants and traces ot Glo^optevis tn si ^ 
This I'sts 1; porphyry, which forms a series of rocky hills two mdes her south, 
eluding seveli riiles south-easterly to the foot of and overlook^iug some high ta.b e 
Sjped Carboniferous ranges (composed of sandstones, grits, and conglomerates, ndb 
ojlipifipd wood') m diroctiou* ^ i i i /.»« Ai 
The occurrence of Glossopteris alluded to by Mr. J’ a- 
puzzle to me It would appear as if the plant had been found in the horizontal sand 
stones and shales, which I have always regarded as 
evidence, in my “ Handbook of Queensland Geology (1886), and Geolo^ c P 
Cendka " (1886), I the Mouut Mulligm. T.bl.W .. . eouWh.n of M ■ 
Toylot'. “ Cuibomterous E.ngc,” I confess «nth considernUe ®‘°k.t„ne, 
however, Mr. Eands’ discovery of Glossopteris in a portion of the Desert Sandst 
which clearly overlies unconformablv the Lower Cretaceous EoUing Downs <orm 
alffioully the,, may hAe been in regarding Mr, T.jW, 
bearing beds as of Desert Sandstone age, and I have restored them accordi „ y 
formation in the Geological Map issued herewith. 
^ IT f f f-Tio lite Mr. W. Harm’s Exploring Expedition in^ Northern Queensland 
which b&!NormL''Trj™r was attached as Geologist), see Proe. B. Geogr. Soo., 1874, xviii., pp. 87-107- 
