lumps. Other parts o f the ftratum confifted of laminated coal
of the nature of turf, fuch as by naturalifts would be called
Lithanthrax, and pieces occurred that feemed to differ in nothing
from that fpecies known in England by the name of Bovey
coal. The ligneous part burned with a clear flame, without
much fmell, and left a refiduum o f light white athes like thofe
o f dried wood. The more compact earthy and ftoney parts
burned lefs clear, gave out a fulphureous fmell, and left
behind a flaty caulk, that foon contracted on the furface a deep
brown ochraceous cruft. The borer being put down in feveral
places in hopes of meeting with the main bed of coal, the
general refult was as follows :
In the bed of the rivulet:
Coal - - -
Feet.
2
Blue foapy rock - 5
White foapy rock 22.
Grey fand-ftone with clay 21
Sand-ftone o f chocolate brown *4 Bluifli foapy clay 31
Striated fand, red and white, containing clay 33
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Here the operation was difcontinued for the prefent.
Moft o f the European, and feveral of the tropical, fruits have
already been introduced into the colony, and cultivated with
fuccefs. In every month o f the year the table may be fupplied
with
with at leaft ten different forts of fruit, green and dry.
Oranges of two kinds, the common China and the fmall Mandarin,
figs, grapes and guavas, are all very good ; peaches
and apricots not bad. Thefe, when i'n feafon, are fold at the
rate of one (hilling for 100. Apples, pears, pomgranates, quinces
and medlars, thrive well and bear plentifully, but are not very
good. Few indeed are at the pains of grafting even the trees,
but fuffer them to grow up from the feed. Plums and cherries
that are produced in the colony are of an indifferent quality.
Goofeberries and currants are faid to have been tried, but
without fuccefs. The neaarine has not yet been introduced.
Raiberries are tolerably good, but fcarce : and ftrawberries are
brought to market every month o f the year. There are no
filberts nor common hazel nuts, but almonds, walnuts and
chefnuts, all of good quality, are plentiful, as'are alfo mulberries
of a large fize and excellent flavour.
The market is likewife tolerably well fupplied with moft of
the European vegetables for the table, from the farms that lie
fcattered along the eaftern fide of the peninfula, in number
about forty or fifty. On fome o f thefe farms are vineyards alfo
of confiderable extent, producing, befides the fupply of the
market with green and ripe grapes and prepared raifins, about
feven hundred leaguers or pipes of wine a-year, each containing
154 gallons. Of thefe from fifty to a hundred eonfift o f a
fweet lufcious wine, well known in England by the name of
Conftantia, the produce of two farms lying clofe under the
mountains