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senators and representatives, to be by them distributed among the people in their 

 several school districts or otherwise, according to their discretion. 



Benefits omd Results. — As a principal result of his operations 

 Doctor Jackson states: 



The public lands have been augmented in value by spreading inforraatioTi 

 abroad respecting their nature and capability of cultivation. The value of in- 

 dividual property, the aggregate of which forms the sum of the State wealth, 

 has been greatly increused; new resources have been discovered, and the extent 

 and value of those but little known have been ascertained and reported. Mines 

 and minerals which, when wi'ought, will bring a large capital into the State, 

 will serve to relieve the community generally by creating more taxable property, 

 and thus removing a share of the public burthen from the shoulders of every 

 Individual. Materials now imported at a high cost will be produced at a cheaper 

 rate within the limits of the State and domestic industry, sldll, and capital will 

 be brought forward. Iron and glass may be manufactured advantageously in 

 Maine, and these two articles are of more general use and require more expendi- 

 ture than any others imported into the State. It will be hereafter a matter of 

 astonishment that IMaine ever had to import her iron and glass as much ^o as 

 that she formerly did not supply her citizens v/ith bread. Slate quarries, equal 

 if not superior to those of Wales, have lain neglected in Maine for ages, while 

 the houses of Portland, Bangor, and even the statehouse itself are covered with 

 foreign slate. 



Since a new demand for lime has been created for agricultural use, it became 

 very important to know whether the interior of the State possessed valuable 

 beds of limestone, for it is evident that the farmers could not use lime exten- 

 sively on their soil unless it could be obtained at a low price. We are enabled 

 to point out innnense and inexhauslible supplies of this useful .substance, in the 

 very regions where it is most required, and to demonstrate its capability of 

 answering for every oi'dinary use. 



In concluding, he adds: 



Maine has already gained great credit for her liberal views in undertaking a 

 geological .survey of the State, and so important has the work proved to the 

 community generally that it is to be hoped that she will carry it forward to its 

 full completion. 



A final appendix to this report is a catalogue of 1,566 specimens 

 that had been collected by the members of the survey and deposited 

 in the statehouse for exhibition. As already noted, smaller collections 

 had been presented to Bowdoin College and to the other educational 

 institutions mentioned in the resolution of 1837. 



Although Doctor .Jackson had called attention to the fact that he 

 had been able to do no more than make a very superficial examina- 

 tion of the geology of the State and to lay a foundation upon which 

 more exact knowledge might be erected, the legislature, nevertheless, 

 decided to let the matter rest, so that nothing more was done in the 

 interest of the subject for the next 23 years. In the meanwhile the 

 collections which had been made with so much trouble and care 

 were neglected, as already noted. 



