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tion was given to the stratigraphy and })aleonto]ogy of the Low 

 conntry. It seems now (1855) to liave been generally conceded 

 that the time had coQie for a more thorough survey of the gen- 

 eral and economic geology of the "up country" — the region of 

 crystalline rocks. 



(2) Mr. IJeber's early training as a geologist and the work to 

 which he seemed most devoted was petrology and "vein geog- 

 nosy." His studies in Germany with Humboldt, Von Cotta 

 and others, and his work on the geological survey in Alal)ama, 

 under Tuomey, were along this line. And these features of his 

 work in South Carolina were prominently in view durincr the 

 entire existence of the survey. 



(3) The smallness of the appropriation* prevented the em- 

 ployment of any regular assistants, by the aid of whom a larger 

 amount and greater variety of work could have been accom- 

 plished. 



As to the area covered by the survey, Lieber has left on 

 record the following statement if 



The Districts (counties) which I have now surveyed and mapped out are: 

 Chesterfield, Lancaster, Chester, York, Union, Spartanburgh, Greenville, 

 Pickens, Anderson and Abbeville — my plan having been first to proceed along 

 the North Carolina line from the margin of the sand region. As our meta- 

 phoric rocks strike very uniformly north-east, this plan enabled me to reach 

 the heads of the columns as it were. Having effected this, and thus facili- 

 tated the mechanical part of the operation, I was engaged in proceeding down 

 the Savannah, intending this year to have commenced filling up the interme- 

 diate Districts, when the Survey was stopped, 



Edgefield has been partially surveyed and also, in part, reported upon; but 

 I could not yet prepare a map. 



Other Districts in which cursory or partial examinations liave been made 

 are: Lexington, Richland, I^aurens, Newberry, Fairfield, and the Districts 

 along the coast from the mouth of the Savannah to Bull's Bay. These obser- 

 vations on the coast were made during a portion of the winter (1859), but 

 they are, as yet, quite incomplete. 



Concerning the methods of operation followed by Lieber dur- 

 ing the prosecution of the survey, but little can be said other 



*S3,000 per annum. 



fFourth Annual Report, 1859, p. 146. 



