96 U. S. Coast Survey Reports—1861 and 1862. 
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€ mean time, upon all that large portion of the coast 
which the rebellion could not reach or affect, the survey has 
steadily advanced without any modification of its plan, though 
with an activity somewhat reduced in consequence of the reduc: 
tion of the appropriations for this work since the commencement 
of the war. This reduction has been considerable when com- 
pared with the total of the appropriations themselves—amount- 
ing to from twenty to forty per cent—but in absolute amount it 
is so inconsiderable as to excite a doubt as to the wisdom of the 
he hydrography covered 
thousand miles, One hundre 
thousand soundings had been made, and more than ei 
four hundred specimens of bottom obtained, 
