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ECONOMICAL GEOLOGY. 



wood-chopping, lumbering, or going hy water ; and yet the 

 amount of grain raised is very nearly, if not quite sufficient 

 to support the population. This is a very great advance 

 on the production of fifteen or twenty years since, when, 

 as I am informed by a respectable inhabitant of Lower 

 Township, there was not wheat enough raised in that 

 township to make a barrel of flour. 



The average crops of wheat, corn, rye, oats, and pota- 

 toes, are not very different from those grown in the rest 

 of the State, or in the adjoining States. The following 

 tabular statement, copied mostly from the Census of 1850, 

 gives the average of two or three staple crops per acre. 



By extra cultivation, large crops, thirty bushels of wheat 

 per acre, sixty to eighty of corn, &c., are not uncommonly 

 raised.* 



^' A view of the industrial resources of the County would be incomplete without some 

 knowledge of those branches of business which the location and the tastes of the inhabitants 

 have largely developed. 



SHippiNa.-j-The following is an estimate of the number, tonnage, and value of vessels 

 owned in the County. It comprises, however, but little more than half those which are 

 sailed from here. Ordinarily, the vessels are held by several shareholders, and it is com- 

 mon to have some of the shares held by merchants or others in the large cities. 



TABLE. 



FisHEMBS. — The waters of the ocean and Bay, as well as the sounds, creeks, and the- 

 roughfares, abound in fish, olams, and oysters. Very large quantities of these are taken 



