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11 items extracted from CO 280/370 9 (ff 511-513, 525-532). Coal fields in Tasmania....
Catalogue reference: MPG 1/808
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This record is about the 11 items extracted from CO 280/370 9 (ff 511-513, 525-532). Coal fields in Tasmania.... dating from [1866] in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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11 items extracted from CO 280/370 9 (ff 511-513, 525-532). Coal fields in Tasmania. (1) Geological Map of the Mersey and Don Coal Fields. Scale: 1 inch to 1 mile. Lithographed, coloured, with key to colouring. By Charles Gould Government Geologist. Printed at the Geological Survey of Tasmania. (2) Enlarged map of a portion of the Mersey Coal Field. Reference table. Scale: 2 inches to 1 mile. Compass indicator. Lithographed, coloured. Printed by J Alvarez, printer, Hobart Town. Geological Survey of Tasmania. (3) Sheet of sketch sections to illustrate the map of the Mersey Coal Fields. No scale shown. Compass indicator. Lithographed, coloured. 'On stone by F. Dunnett'. Printed by J Alvarez. (4) Horizontal sections to accompany the map of the Mount Nicholas and Douglas River Coal Fields. Scales: 1 inch to 1 mile (horizontal); 5 inches to 2 miles (vertical). Lithographed, coloured. Lithographed by A Randall. (5) Vertical sections of seams worked by the Douglas River Coal Company. Sections are Iner mines - top seam; Iner mines - second seam; Outer mines; Shaft sunk by Mr Craig; Shaft at Badger creek. Scale: 1 inch to 2 feet. Lithographed, shaded. Lithographed by A Randall. (6) 'Vertical Sections no. 1'. A sheet of sections, with titles 'Section of seam cropping out in the Denison rivulet west of the Douglas River Coal Company's land'; 'Section of the large seam on the Douglas River'; 'Sections of seams in the Mount Nicholas Coal Field'. Scale: 1 inch to 2 feet. Lithographed, shaded. [By] A Randall. (7) 'Vertical sections no. 2.' A sheet of sections, with titles 'Cliff section on the mouth side of St Pauls Dome'. Scale: 1 inch to 30 feet; 'Section of the strata cropping out in a branch of the Fingal rivulet. Scale: 1 inch to 15 feet; 'Section in Picanini crek'. Scale 1 inch to 50 feet. Lithographed, shaded. [By] A Randall. (8) 'Section of the Douglas River Coal Company's works. By Mr. James Craig. Shows Inner mines and outer mines. Scales: 1 inch to 1000 feet (horizontal); 1 inch to 200 feet (vertical). Lithographed. By A Randall. (9) Two sketches on a single sheet. Figure 1. Sketch of the rocks called The Sisters near Avoca. Figure 2. Sketch of group of rocks at the extremity of one of the spurs on the southwest flank of Ben Lomond. Printed, shaded. (10) Two sketches on a single sheet. Figure 3. Section exhibiting a great fault in the Douglas River. Figure 4. Section exhibiting a remarkable interruption of the small seam in a creek tributary to the Douglas River. Printed, shaded. (11) Geological map of the Mount Nicholas and Douglas River Coal Fields. Scale: 1 inch to 1 mile. By Charles Gould, Government Geologist. Lithographed, coloured, with key to colouring. 'Lithographed under the direction of Charles Gould by F. Dunnett. A Randall Draftsman.' 'Printed in colours by R. V. Hood.' Dimensions: (1) 52.5 cm x 74.5 cm; (2) 64 cm x 46.5 cm; (3) 64.5 cm x 48.5 cm; (4) 36.5 cm x 51.5 cm; (5) 48 cm x 57 cm; (6) 48.5 cm x 57 cm; (7) 49 cm x 42 cm; (8) 23 cm x 43 cm; (9) 30 cm x 17.5 cm; (10) 32 cm x 19 cm; (11) 75 cm x 56.5 cm.
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