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slips. The coal consists of one seam about 16 inches in average thickness of which one inch is a streak of sandstone more or less regular, above this 11 inches stone and about six inches of coal - about six feet above is another small seam 6-8 inches in thickness, very adhesive to the roof which is of a firm sandstone.
There are a few fossils, all stems or reeds with an exceptional leaf. Sequoyia was noticed among them (bag 144). The coal is solid, bright clean, with little visible silex and no sulphur (bag 141). Experiments in burning at the canneries give as a result 118 lbs equal 100 Hs of Wellington coal. It does not darken