302 
Brouglit forward 
M. 
... 116 
in. 
7 
Shales with thin Coal-seams 
... 220 
0 
Coal, Lapham or Tokbanelea Seam 
4ft. llin. to 2 
0 
Shale.s ... 
... 3o 
0 
Coal, Bi’KErM Seam 
... 3 
7 
Shales wi li thin beds of sandstone and a thin seam of Coal 
... 150 
0 
Coal, Watson’s Seam 
... 4 
0 
Shales... 
... 70 
0 
Sandstone 
... 160 
0 
Coal ... ... ... ... ... 
... 1 
6 
Sandstone and Shale 
... 30 
0 
Coal, said to be 
... 2 
6 
Sandstone 
... 14 
0 
Coal, Noeth Haetlet Seam 
... 4 
2 
Sandstone 
... 88 
0 
CoaZ, three thin seams, 2 to 4 inches thick 
... 0 
4 
Sandstone 
... Ill 
8 
Coal, Glenesk Seam 
... 1 
8 
Total 
1,015 
0 
That the above form only a small portion of the total thickness of the Coal Measures 
evident from the map attached to Mr. Rands’ Report. A 
copy 
of the 
map on a 
reduced scale is given in PI. 47. The strata continue to rise in the same du’ection and 
at the same angle for at least two and a quarter miles u]) the streams which make 
sections to the south-west, before any inversions of dip or want of evidence would lead 
us to doubt that we are crossing the successive outcrops of similar strata. Probably the 
total thickness of strata beneath the Glenesk Seam is not less than three thousand feet, 
or, say, four thousand feet of strata below the horizon of the Bridge Seam. 
It may be mentioned that there are some discrepancies between Mr. Gregory’s 
and Mr. Rands’ readings of the section ; thus Mr. Gregory gives the distance between the 
Lapham and Burrum Seams as fifty five and Mr. Rands as thirty five feet. Between 
the Burrum and Watson’s Seams, Mr. Gregory gives one hundred and Mr. Rands one 
hundred and fifty feet ; and between Watson’s and the North Hartley Mr. Gregory gives 
five hundred and Mr. Rands two hundred and sixty eight feet. I presume that Mr- 
Rands, being in possession of later information, is more correct in these details. A 
bore at Torbanelea, quoted in Mr. Rands’ Annual Report for 18SG, gives the position of 
the Watson Seam as one hundred and fifty feet above the Burrum. 
Mr. Rands gives the following particulars regarding the Torbanelea Mine : — ■ 
“ The pit is sunk through the Lapham or Torbanelea Mine down to the Burrum 
Seam, cutting the former at eighty five feet and the latter at one hundred and ten feet. 
Work was at first started at the Lower or Burrum Seam, but it has been abandoned 
for the time being to work the Lapham Seam, which is reached by a crosscut put in 
from the former. The Lapham is a harder and better coal, especially for gas-making 
purposes. The Burrum Seam is here three feet eleven inches thick, with a band of 
shale seven inches thick. The roof is a grey shale and is fairly good. The coal is 
friable. 
“The Lapham Seam is thicker, and is a more solid and brighter coal. It is six 
feet two inches in thickness, including a band of black carbonaceous shale one foot 
three inches thick in the middle. The roof is of black shale. Experiments conducted at 
Melbourne prove this to be a good steam coal. Two tons of coal evaporated 3,900 
gallons of water, whereas two tons of the best Newcastle (N.S.W.) coal evaporated 
