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facts and proofs are fairly brought forward to meet the 0 Sh 
“ — recorded, I must decline further discussion upon this ques- 
footing as to value with mere suggestions and va surmises, 
then I have nothing more om shy: n that case, the fotne Geolo- 
gical investigation changes its mode of operations the better, and 
then let laborious exploration in the field give way to the richer 
results of a fertile rey orig in the house 
New cata Ave, 1 
and myself 
in his presence, at Nebr: ak City, respecting the recs cs eg of 
finding workable beds of coal t As the 
statement stands in his report, Ti am S ued t that ¢ without further 
explanation some of the citizens of Western Iowa, who are inter- 
ested in the subject of coal there, may be misled in regard to my 
real views upon that subject. 
On age 125 of that report Dr. H., after sell — fac 
that eek and myself had examined the coun untry ac dae 
the Des Moines valley to Nebraska City, says that “ the ‘Sone 
sion they arrived at was, that the workable beds of coal occur in 
the lower open geese - and that those beds would be found by 
borin 
at Ne raska Cit 
In May, iat invited Mr. Meek, as an old and highly valued 
scientific friend, to join my camp and cross the State ve lowa 
me to Nebraska City, when on his way to Sb cccond T had, 
, h om tl 
to be found in the lower Coal-measures, and my object was to re- 
wit pon our arrival in 
Mr. 
Nebraska we summed u ae errs of the Coal-measure we 
unless the upper wiproductive member of 
mm ‘g . 
— ‘Neither of us, I am sure, had the slightest idea a : 
nent 
that ted to our friend woul d by any 
- one eke ” that. hada of eal “would be reached at any — 
