TO HIS EXrELLENCy SILAS WRIGHT. 



Governor of llic Stale of New-York. 



SIR. 



The present volume, the completion of which is in a great measure due to 

 your special indulgence (in granting a prolongation of the time originally 

 stipulated), contains a general account of the soils of the State, their 

 composition and distribution, and their relations to the imderlying forma- 

 tions. Although the work thus far has been the result of much labor, still 

 I can but barely hope that its execution may meet your approbation, and 

 subserve the purpose for which the Survey was ordered by the Legislature 

 of New- York. 



Your obetli(Mit servant, 



Albany, December 30, 184H. 



E, EMMONS. 



