Remarks on the Coals and Lignites of Victoria . 145 
Eastward of Coal Creek, between it and Cape Patterson, the 
basset-edges of some thirteen distinct seams are visible in the 
rocks ; till have a S. to S.S.W. dip at about 12°; the largest of 
these only is of workable size, and is from 20 to 24 inches thick ; 
it was worked a short distance inlaud by the late Victoria Coal 
Company, about twenty years ago, and yielded 1,900 tons of coal 
before being abandoned on account of the difficulties of shipment. 
At Capo Patterson, Mr. N. Levi has sunk a shaft, and cut the 
coal seam worked many years ago by the Victoria Coal Company 
— on the inland side of a disturbing fault — and though the avail- 
able thickness of workable coal, so far as exposed, is rather small, 
the quality is most excellent. The total thickness of the seam is 
about 2ft. 6in., including impurities, but these maybe expected to 
disappear as the seam is traced inland, in which direction it has 
been proved to extend, and to increase in size, by a number of 
diamond-drill bores that have been put down. The last boro 
passed through a seam of 43 inches, of which 2 feet was good, 
and the rest somewhat impure. 
About Coal Creek and Cape Patterson there are several large and 
small basalt dykes, which intersect the rocks, and will assuredly 
be found to locally alTect and probably “fault” the coal scams. 
The prevailing north-easterly dip of the ascondiug series of 
rocks, visible from Cape Patterson towards Anderson’s Inlet, the 
more regular and even character of the layers, and the absence of 
dykes in that direction, are favorable indications that the largo 
Cape Patterson seams passing beneath them will be found to 
underlie a great area, and to continue tolerably persistent and 
unbroken north w r ard ami north-eastward from Cape Patterson. 
As pointed out loug ago by Mr. A. R. C. Selwyu, the “Rock” 
and “ Queon*’ veins at Coal Creek are likely, from their south- 
westerly or seaw'ard direction of dip in that locality, to outcrop 
inland, assuming such direction of dip to be maintained; but, from 
observations of the dips of the rocks generally aloug the coast, it 
appears that the undulatious of the beds are such that not only do 
they incline north-eastward from Cape Patterson, but also change 
their dip northerly from Coal Creek, and incline inland, as though 
to pass under the lower part of the Powlett Valley. 
Indeed, the idea that the Sandy Watorholes seams are the 
western outcrops of the Capo Patterson seams, and that they 
underlie the lvilcunda scam, is not so far-fetched as may at first 
sight appear; but, nevertheless, the variable character and dip of 
the rock-layers, and the absence of any markedly distinctive rock- 
bands, forbid the adoption of any special theory. 
In the ascending series of beds visible from Cape Patterson to 
Anderson’s Inlet, there occur a few small coal seams, but, save one 
of from 10 to 20 inches, none that appear likely to become of 
importance. 
