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the newspapers, a reprint of unknown comprehensiveness appearing 

 iu Mill's Statistics of South Carolina, 1826 (pages 25-30), and later 

 in Lieber's final report. Vanuxem severed his connection with the 

 college in 1826 to undertake private mining ventures in Mexico, and 

 nothing further appears to have been done until 1842, when the 

 assembly committee on agriculture, after an amusingly verbose and 

 grandiloquent preamble — 



Resolved, Tliat the interests and pursuits of South Carolina are essentially 

 agricultural and should be promoted by all pi-acticable means within our power. 



Resolved, That a geological and agricultural survey of the State, for the 

 examination of our soil, discovery and application of marl lime, and develop- 

 ing all other resources and facilities of improvement will prove among the most 

 efficient m.eans of giving value to her soil, increasing her products, multipljing 

 her population, and diffusing national and individual prosperity. 



Resolved, That as a means of testing this salutary uieasure an nunual ap- 

 propriation of $2,000 be granted for two years for an agricultural survey of 

 tlie State, to be prosecuted during that period ; and that the governor be si>e- 

 cially charged with procuring a competent individual to effect such survey, who 

 shall i-eport all geological information which may be incidentally collected on 

 such survey. 



Resolved, That the result of each year's survey be reported to this house, 

 and copies distributd to every agricultural society throughout the State. 



Resolved, Thft the house do agree to the report. Ordoi*ed, tliat it be sent to 

 the senate for concurrence. 



In the senate December IT, 1842 : 



Resolved, That the senate do concur in the report. Ordered, that It be re- 

 turned to the house of representatives. 



Acting under these resolutions, Gov. John H. Hammond appointed 

 Edrnund Ruffin, agricultural surveyor of the State. After a year 

 of " arduous labor " Mr. Ruffin resigned, to be succeeded on a broader 

 platform by Michael Tuomey. Ruffin had for some years been prom- 

 inent in agricultural matters, and in 1840 had "for the purpose of 

 presenting the fullest proof in facts and opinions, derived from the 

 experience of practical men of the operations and effects of marl," 

 published " sundry circular queries and also directed copies specially 

 to many known individuals." The report rendered by him in Novem- 

 ber, 1843, contained the results of these queries, so far as results had 

 been obtained, and also a dissertation on the subject of the general 

 character, extent, and distribution of the calcareous formations of 

 the lower portion of the State. A few pages were also devoted to the 

 soils of the granitic region above the lower fall line and to rice 

 culture in the Georgetown district. The report closed with a series 

 of appendices composed of short papers connected with the report. 



