STATE GEOLOGIST 11 



appropriation for that purpose, This was made, and t 

 commenced by Dr. Houghton, \ ■. o I i j to the plan a 

 upon betw< on Dr. Houghton and Mr. Burt, the township Lin 



pper Peninsula were to be run by Mr. Hurt, or under his 



supervision, while the subdivisions were to be made by other 



deputy si; Dr. Houghton having the especial control oi' 



the whole. All rocks crossed by Lines wei examined, 



md the exact locality noted, while at the same 



ich informati tld be obtained, a a col- 



i in relation to the ical ami topographical features 



of tli^ The surveyors were to be accompanied along 



>al barometrical observer. This Bystem had 



I fairly organized, and the field work of >n nearly 



completed, when his melancholy death by drowning, occurred 



during a storm on Lake Superior, near Ea night 



This unfortunate termination of the survey 



1 I time by S. W Higgins, on the 



7th of January, 1840:) 



i the plan entered upon, a full and minute report 

 I prepared and returned by Dr. Houghton, to 



the office of the Survey I al. On the d 

 of the - emploj ■ /"ill i am A. 



Burt and Bela Hubbard, to compile reports on the g 

 i - uf the work for 1*4~>, from the field d 

 Mr. B was prepared from his own notes, and Mr. 



Hubbard's from those of Dr. Houghton. I i Reports § 



unfold in an admirable manner the , il structure of the 



Superior, and anticipate 

 results which were Baba [uently worked out by the United 



•tea and maps of thi ishipa 



Dr. II n at the time of his death, and 



led the first geological Burvey of our State — a work 



* liton,Jr. 



-■: R.porU I amoulirely indebted lo Lbe work of Jacob Houghton, 

 Jr., b : ) r 



