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JBraesiWe— The Braeside Seam Is about three feet thick, and has several small 
hands of clay. The dip, which, however, varies considerably, averages 15 to 
the S.W. • • 1 , • 
Btmdmiba New This seam is three feet to three feet nine inches in 
thickness. It dips in the No. 4 Tunnel to S. 10° E. at 10°. 
This seam is met with in New Chum Shaft beneath a thicker and 
coarser seam. It is four feet six inches in thickness, and is free of bands, although an 
occasional boulder is met with. It dips at 1 in 9 to south-west. 
Bundanba New Pit.— This seam is four feet thick, with an intermittent band. 
It dips at 8° to S. 35° W. , 
Watersiown.—’YlhQ seam at present worked is three feet two inches thick, with 
several small bands. i i j j 
JErsMne's Seam, Ross End.— This seam is worked from a shaft one hundred and 
sixty feet deep. It lies thirty-two feet below the Boss Eud Seam. The strata dip at 
18° to 8. 10° E. A six-inch band divides an upper seam of coal, two feet three inches 
in thickness, from a lower seam of eighteen inches. ^ 
Walloon.— The seam, worked by the Walloon Coal Company, dips at 13 to W. 
10° 8. The following is a section of the seam : — 
Coal 
Clay band 
Coal 
Clay band 
Coal 
Clay band 
Coal 
Clay band 
Coal ... ... 
Ft. in. 
1 6 
0 6 
0 3 
0 4 
0 8 
0 1 
0 8 
0 1 
1 0 
Eclipse. — This seam, which is worked by Mr. John Wright, is a pretty clean 
coal, five feet six inches in thickness. 
In the paragraiih on “ Coal near Eosewood Station,” above quoted, Mr. b-regory 
speaks of the coal-bearing strata resting on “limestone containing corals of the 
mountain limestone series.” This, of course, if correct, would be important evidence 
as to the a^^e of the Ipswich Coal Measures, and I sent the late Mr. James Smith to the 
locality in June, 1890, with instructions to search the district thoroughly. Mr. Smith 
reported that he had examined all the sections in the neighbourhood, without finding 
any “ Mountain Limestone.” He found, however, in the bed of a creek, about a mile 
west of the Earmers’ State School, numerous boulders of a peculiar ironstone, exactly 
similar to that found at Laurence’s Homestead, Stewart’s Creek, Rockhampton, and 
containing a similar assemblage of fossils, and, in addition, some concretions wine my 
Colleague has recognised as very similar in appearance to the genus Apiocrinus. In the 
Map accompanying Mr. Smith’s Eeport, he marked Sections 2v, 66, and 102, Parish ot 
Glrandehester, as the locality where these fossils occurred. i i +i, 
—This seam is worked by the proprietors of the Eclipse, and has the 
following section ; — 
Ft. in. 
Coal ... ... ... ••• ••• ••• ■■■ _ „ 
Band ^ g 
Coal - g 2 
Band „ 
Coal ... ... ... ... ••• ••• ••• 
