To His Excellency, Thomas G. Jones, 



Governor of Alabama: 



SIR I have the honor to submit herewith the Report of 

 A. M. Gibson, Assistant Geologist, upon Murphree's Valley. 

 From the preface it will be seen that this report was in great 

 part written several years ago. The delay in the publication 

 has come from several causes, chief among which was the 

 lack of a suitable map to illustrate it. The general geological 

 map of the state being at the time of the writing of this report 

 in course of construction, it was thought better to use that in 

 illustration than to duplicate a part of it for this special 

 purpose. Every one who has had experience in such matters 

 will readily understand how the completion of such a map 

 as that of the state of Alabama has taken far more time than 

 was anticipated at the outset. 



The present report deals with the geological formations of 

 the valley alone ; other reports of Mr. Gibson have been pub- 

 lished, treating of special area^ of the Coal Measures adjacent 

 to this valley, and one is now in course of preparation de- 

 scribing in detail the Coal Measures of Blount Mountain 

 lying to the east of Murphree's Valley. 

 Very respectfully, 



EUGENE A. SMITH, 



State Geologist. 

 University of Alabama, Dec. 27, 1892. 



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