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“ From Beaudesert I went up the Logan and Palm Creek to within three or 
four miles of Mount Stanley, about thirty miles south of Beaudesert. The Ipswich beds 
extended all the way up. I saw no seams of coal. In Mr. Byrne’s Selection, on Palm 
Creek, I was shown a bed of black carbonaceous shale, about fifteen inches in thickness, 
which had been mistaken for coal. 
“ Seams of coal have been reported to exist in Christmas and Widgee Creeks, 
but as I could get no definite information regarding them, I did not visit that part of 
the country. 
“ Nothing, it will be observed, has been attempted in the way of trying any of 
these seams away from their outcrops ; the seams are, in no case, of any great thickness, 
but the analyses of some of the coals show them to be of a fair quality, and I think it 
would repay the owners of the properties to test them at a shallow depth away from the 
outcrops. 
“ I believe that Mr. Downman has done nothing at present to verify, by means 
of a shaft, the correctness of the results obtained in a borehole put down by Mr. 
Falconer, a section of which I gave in my previous Eeport.” 
J, 
