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should certainly find limestone all along the river from Eastport to "Red Sul- 

 phur"; fortunately in Eastport I found a guide and a very intelligent and 

 obliging one, in the person of Mr. Vance, who undertook to show me a path 

 along the face of the cliff and who fulfilled his engagement. Without weari- 

 some details I give you the result of subsequent explorations, in the following 

 specifications of localities, on a line along the Tennessee River from Eastport to 

 Winn's Landing. The limestone forms a continuous cliff from Eastport to the 

 limit of Mr. R. W. Brice's land 



y z mile through Mr. J. Hill's land ; 

 % " " Mr. J. Welsh's " 

 % " " Mr. Dan. Dexter's " 

 }£ " " Mr. Win. Clement's land; 

 1 " " Dr. Cochrane's land ; 

 1 " " Mrs. Brigg's land ; 

 % " " Mr. Moore's land ; 

 '-% " « Mr. Busby's land ; 

 % " " Mr. J. Mar's land ; 

 for the next three miles the limestone is covered by fallen chert, conglomerate 

 ajid pebbles of the Orange Sand, but can no doubt be easily reached and worked 

 — for the succeeding two miles, to Winn's Landing it appears repeatedly.' 



You have, therefore, a complete verification of your conjecture that the 

 limestone would; be found between Eastport and " Red Sulphur." I need not 

 enlarge upon the importance to the immediate district, and to the whole State 

 Of such an immense deposit of Hydraulic Limestone, sufficient to supply the 

 Whole valley of the Mississippi with cement, for generations to come, which can 

 be easily worked, and from its vicinity to the Tennessee River, easily transported 

 to every part of the South and South-west. 

 Truly yours, 



W. D. MOORE. 



