Remarks regarding coal seam opened out by Mr. Brook at Compton, Old Beach

Mr. Brock has recently sunk a shaft to a seam of coal, which he discovered indications of at sea margin a little north of Mount Direction.
The seam, about two feet thick, exists under hard laminated blue and grey shales containing abundant impresssions of the following Mesozoic fossil plants: Thinnfeldia obtusifolia, Phyllocotheca Hookeri, Phylloctheca Australis, Pterophyllum Risdonensis, Zeugophyllites elongatus.
The shaft is sunk on the southern slope of the rounded hill, capped with variegated sandstones, opposite Austin's Ferry, which rises to a height of about 300 feet.