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About one-quarter of a mile below this, on the same creek, the following section appears:

I traced the length of this bed, to the distance of 150 feet, coal of fair quality.

From one and a half to two miles further down, on the same creek, in the Lightfoot survey, there is another large coal bed 80 feet long, where is the succeeding section:

A few rods below this, the coal appears again in the bed of the stream, from which it extends down the creek about three miles. Last spring I sent Charles E. Hall to examine the coal beds of Bastrop county.

Last Spring Mr. C. E. Hall and Mr. Horne, of the survey. visited the coal deposits of Bastrop county. At Mr. Goodman's, they learned that coal from his mine has been Used to run the engine of a cotton factory, in the town of Bastrop, for more than six months, to the perfect satisfaction of the proprietors of the manufactory.

From Little river, in Milam county, north-eastwardly to the Herndon place on the Brazos, there are almost continuous coal beds, as is indicated by wells along the route; distance, 10 to 12 miles. On Little river are two beds, the upper 4 to 5 feet thick. and the lower 6 to 8, to the bed of the stream-the base of the coal unknown.

It has an exposed thickness in the banks of the Brazos river, a few rods below the old dwelling of Mr. Herndon,