INTRODUCTORY LEEPER. 
New York, February, 1879. 
Professor N. S. SHAuer, Director Kentucky Geological Survey: 
Dear Sir: I herewith submit a report upon a belt of Ken- 
tucky timbers, extending from Columbus, on the Mississippi 
river, to Pound Gap, on the Virginia line. 
The data for the report were obtained on a trip made for 
that purpose during the summer of 1878. The general plan 
of the report does not differ materially from that of previous 
reports; but the great extent of country covered by it, and 
the particular objects in view in this report, rendered neces- 
sary considerable differences in detail. Such of these as are 
important will appear from the body of the report. 
Very respectfully, 
LAFAYETTE Jr? Dal iis Ee 
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