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Maury did not take up his residence in Lexington 

 until the following year, on June 10, as his house there 

 was not ready for his family until that time. With 

 Richmond as his home during the autumn and winter, 

 he was busily engaged in lecturing, in making prepara- 

 tions for the physical survey of the material and mineral 

 resources of Virginia, in distributing cinchona seeds 

 which had been sent to him from England, in trying to 

 arouse interest in the establishment of an agricultural 

 school in connection with the Virginia Military Institute, 

 and in working in the interest of the Chesapeake and 

 Ohio Railway and the establishment of a direct line of 

 steamers from Norfolk to Flushing. The most impor- 

 tant address that he delivered during this period was 

 given at the Staunton Fair on October 28, 1868. In 

 this speech he referred to the opinion which had gotten 

 abroad in the North, and even in England, that the 

 South had become lacking in energy and enterprise, and 

 he advised that they make use of their water power, 

 encourage German and Dutch immigrants to come to 

 Virginia, and begin to construct better roads. 



When Maury went with his family to Lexington to 

 reside, he was greatly pleased with his new home. "Here 

 we are", he wrote, "in our new home, busy fixing up; and 

 things begin to know their places. So we also begin to 

 have a home-feeling. People are very kind, the country 

 is beautiful, the views and the scenery lovely, and both 

 climate and air such that exercise is enjoyment". In 

 these congenial surroundings he set to work with a will 

 in the performance of his new duties, special attention 

 being given to the making of the physical survey of 

 Virginia. The object of this work was twofold; namely, 

 to hasten the development of all the state's natural 



