DEDICATION 
TO THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 
(MY NATIVE sTATE,) 
AND TO THE MEMORY OF 
PROFESSOR MICHAEL TUOMEY AND OF DR. THOS. L. BURDEN ;j 
TO 
JAMES T. WELSMAN, ESQ., OF CHARLESTON, S. C., 
AND 
GEORGE T. LEWIS AND FREDK. KLETT, ESQS., 
OF PHILADELPHIA, PA., 
This little work, one of the results of thirty years’ observations and labor 
in the Geological fields of the Ashley, 
IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED. 
The first were my revered friends and co-laborers; and the last are 
entitled to the honor and distinction of having at once recognized the 
value of the great discovery of the Phosphate Rocks, and of having lib- 
erally furnished the means to develop these long hidden treasures PREPARED 
oF oLp by the Great Masrer Buitper, and laid up in store for the 
APPOINTED TIME, when the waste places of the earth should be replenished 
