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Title: Report on the agriculture and geology of Mississippi. Embracing a sketch of the social and natural history of the state
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Mississippi. State Geologist Wailes, Benjamin L. C. (Benjamin Leonard Covington), 1797-1862
Subjects: Geology Agriculture Natural history
Publisher: (Jackson) E. Barksdale, State Printer
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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priate and necessary. Were a precedentrequired to sanction the very abridged historical outlinehere introduced, a distinguished one may be found inthe able and elaborate memoir that forms the introduc-tion to the Reports on the Natural History of New York,embracing a much wider scope than is here proposed,and comprehending the political history and social pro-gress of the State. To keep this sketch within the prescribed limits, andto exclude all matter not intimately connected with thesubject, it will be restricted to occurrences strictly withinthe present boundaries of the State, except so far as maybe necessary to preserve the natural sequence of events.It will embrace little more, therefore, than a chrono-logical outline, which, if desirable, may, as far as neces-sary, be enlarged in the final report of the Survey. The State of Mississippi lies between the thirty-firstand thirty-fifth parallels of north latitude, with the ad-dition of that portion lying between the first-mentioned2
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18 HISTORICAL OUTLINE. parallel and the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Borgne andeast of Pearl Eiver. On the west it is bounded by theMississippi and Pearl Eivers, and on the east by a linedividing it from the State of Alabama, which is drawnfrom the mouth of Bear Creek on the Tennessee Riverto the northwestern corner of Washington County, Ala-bama, and thence south to a point on Grand Bay on theGulf of Mexico, about seventeen miles due west fromthe Bay of Mobile. The State also embraces the islandsin the Gulf within six leagues of the northern shore,the principal of which are Horn, Ship, and Cat Islands.The width of the State along the northern boundaryis one hundred and twenty miles; on the sea-shoreseventy-eight miles; and along the 31° of north latitudeone hundred and eighty-six miles. The greatest lengthfrom north to south is three hundred and thirty miles.It embraces an area of 55,500 square miles or 35,520,000acres. EXPEDITION AND DISCOYEKT BY DE SOTO. About the close of the year 154reportonagricult01miss

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