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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: Smithsonian Libraries
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d instructionto the planter, at the same time that the collection willform one of much interest to the scientific visitor, tosay nothing of the means of instruction and gratifica-tion it will afford to the young and the curious of allclasses. In my travels through the State, on this not verygenerally understood or properly appreciated mission, itwas to be expected that occasionally little either ofinformation or assistance would be afforded. Such,however, has rarely been the case; and the degree ofinterest which has often been manifested in my pursuits XX INTRODUCTION. lia.s been very gratifying, and augurs favorably for thefuture and more minute prosecution of this investi-gation. To those gentlemen whose hospitality and assistancehave been kindly and liberally extended to me, on myvarious excursions in different quarters, I can only offermy sincere thanks, and express the hope that they mayderive some gratification, if not profit, from the finalissue of the Survey. Washington, Miss.
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T. GLOVER I. HISTOEICAL OUTLINE. In presenting a view of the agriculture of the State,and tracing its condition and progress from the firstoccupancy of our territory by a civilized race, a briefsketch of the discovery and settlement of the countryseems appropriate 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,reportonagricult00miss

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