Excerpt from Minority Report of the Committee on Agriculture, Recommending a Geological Survey of the State: With a Bill for That Purpose The order of the earlier surveys, as given by President Ed. Hitchcock at the in auguration of the New York State Geological Hall, August, 1856, was as follows Albany and Rensselaer counties, 1820; North Carolina, latter part of 1820; Region of Erie Canal, 1823; South Carolina, 1828; Massachusetts Trigonometrical and Geol 1830; Tennessee, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and European' surveys, all were subsequent. New York began in 1836. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.