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Lieber devoted but little time to tlie iiivestiiratioi) of ireoK)*'v 

 of the coastal [)laiii region, but, as stated above, during the win- 

 ter of 1859 he examined the coast region from the Savannah 

 river to Bull's Bay, and he has added somewhat to our knowl- 

 edge of the recent geologic history of this region. He distin- 

 guishes five or six " prominent effects of change":* 



L All ancient depression along our coast. 



2. A total change in the course of the portions of the rivers near the coast. 



3. A more recent superficial elevation of the coast, and 



4. Consequent gradual seaward extension of the land. 



5. A present depression of the coast, and 



6. A southward translocation of our littoral islands. 



Bibliography of the Several SuRVEYS.f 



L. Vanuxem. Report on Geology, published in newspapers, 

 and most of it in Mills' Statistics of South Carolina, 1826, 8vo., 

 pp. 25-30; and in Tuomey's Geology of South Carolina, 1848, 

 pp. XXXI and xxxii. 



Report of the Commencement and Progress of the Agricult- 

 ural Survey of South Carolina for 1843; by Edmund Ruffin, 

 Agricultural Surveyor of the State. Columbia, 1843, 8vo., 120 

 and 55 pp. 



Report on the Geological and Agricultural Survey of the State 

 of South Carolina; by M. Tuomey. Columbia, 1844. 8vo., iv, 

 and 63 pp. 



Report on the Geology of South Carolina; by M. Tuomey. 

 Columbia, 1848. 8vo., vi, 293, and Ivi j»p., plate and 2 maps. 



Pleiocene Fossils of South Carolina: containing descriptions 

 and figures of the Polyparia, Echinoderraata and Mollusca; by 

 M. Tuomey and F. S. Holmes. Charleston, 1857. Quarto, 152 

 pp. and 30 plates. J 



Post-Pleioceue Fossils of South Carolina; by Francis S. 

 Holmes. Charleston, 1860. Quarto, 122 pp. and 28 plates. J 



*Fourth Annual Report (1859), p. 117; also Ana. Jour. Sci., XXVIII (1859), pp. 354-59. 



tA more elaborate list of publications relating to the geology, natural history and 

 resources of South Carolina will be published in a future number of this Journal.' 



JThe propriety of placing these two publications among the reports of the surveys 

 may be questioned, but they were published largely at the expense of the State, and 

 much of the material was originally intended for T uomey's Report (1848). 



