STATISTICS 



OF THE 



STATE OF GEORGIA 



SKETCH OF THE GEOLOGY OF GEORGIA. 



The following account of the geology of Georgia, although 

 merely intended as a sketch, the writer is very sensible does 

 not fulfil the requisitions even of that limited design. The 

 materials for a proper treatise on this subject, are yet to be 

 collected; for although the labour of a State Geologist was for 

 several years devoted to it, yet as the results of his examina- 

 tions have not been published, and as they were not extended 

 to many of the most interesting portions of the State, discon- 

 nected facts, collected by cursory observers, form at present 

 the only means available to the geologist. As many of these 

 facts are, however, of great interest to the State, and as they 

 serve to connect its geology with that of other portions of the 

 Union, this outline, imperfect as it is, is presented in the hope 

 that, while it will add something perhaps to previous know- 

 ledge, it may serve, in sonie measure, to attract the attention 

 of the citizens of the State to a subject of much importance. 

 While the example of such States as New-York, Massachu- 

 setts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and others, in investigating their 

 material and scientific resources, at a great expense of labour 

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