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field, Oliver Smith of Mars Hill, Milton Welch, Theophilus Gary 

 and Z. P. Wentworth of Houlton, Hon. P. P. Burleigh of North 

 Linneus, George H, Downing of No. 5, R. 3 of Aroostook county, 



Sylvester of Parlin Pond, of Forks Hotel, 



(Forks of the Kennebec,) J. H. Eveleth of Greenville, Capt. Thomas 

 Robinson of the "Fairy of the Lake," Seward Dill and Mr. 

 Russell of Phillips, E. Darwin Prescott of Sandy River Plantation, 

 D. M. Benjamin of East Livermore, Prof. D. T. Smith of Bangor, 

 Messrs. Best and McAdam of the Woodstock Charcoal Iron Co., 



Batchelder of Union, and Dr. John DeLaski of Vinal- 



haven. 



Very substantial assistance was furnished the Geologist by the 

 superintendents of most of the railroads in the State ; insomuch 

 that enough funds were saved by this means to authorize the 

 excursion to Aroostook county when the valuable properties of the 

 iron ore in No. 13, R. 6 were discovered. We do not see, then, 

 but that the credit of this discovery — the most important yet made 

 by the survey — is to be ascribed to those gentlemen who so kindly 

 furnished these passes. From Edwin Noyes, the Superintendent 

 of the Penobscot and Kennebec, and the Androscoggin and Ken- 

 nebec Railroads, — from B. H. Cushman, the Manager and Superin- 

 tendent of the Kennebec and Portland Railroad, and from W. W. 

 Sawyer, the Superintendent of the Calais and Baring, and Lewy'g 

 Island Railroad, complimentary tickets for the season were received ; 

 while for occasional passes for particular trains over the Grand 

 Trunk Railway and the Somerset and Kennebec Railroad we are 

 indebted to the kindness of their superintendents. 



To Mr. Sawyer, Superintendent of the Lewy's Island Railroad, 

 we are not only indebted for season tickets for our whole party, 

 but also for the use of special engines and a steamboat — the 

 " Gipsey," — which plies over Lewy's Long and Big Lakes. These 

 favors assisted us very materially, both in time and money. 



We cannot close without alluding to the wisdom your Honora- 

 ble Assembly used in the selection of the commissioners to whom 

 we are responsible, viz : His Excellency the Governor, and the 

 Secretary of the Board of Agriculture. They have fully appreci- 

 ated the value of scientific explorations in their instructions to us ; 

 they have been careful to see that the appropriations were ex- 

 pended to the greatest possible advantage ; they have managed for 

 us diflScult questions of a pecuniary natui-e ; have borne with our 



