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been described in the same manner, the committee believe the 
whole work will constitute a book that will be useful to the State, 
and particularly useful as a guide for the study of geology, which 
science is now taught in the University of Nashville and several 
other colleges. 
"The committee consider the memoir of Dr. Troost as highly 
worthy of publication, but as the production is not of a character 
similar to the generality of the legal documents which have been 
presented to the legislature, it being accompanied with a map and 
profiles of stratification which cannot be executed in this state, 
the committee deem it advisable to leave the publication to be 
conducted by the author himself." 
In searching the manuscript legislative records in the 
office of the secretary of state, the following document was 
found. It is not, as its title would indicate, the second re- 
port but a partial summary accompanying the report which 
is itself not on file. Along with the legislative committee's 
analysis above, it gives a good idea of the contents of this 
impublished second report. His observations on the soils 
of the three counties examined are appended to his third 
report and the geological map, perhaps further improved, 
is contained in his seventh report. The document is as fol- 
lows : 
Aiwval report ofG. Troost, geologist and assayer of the State o( Tenn- 
essee tor the year 1833. 
"I beg leave to lay before your honorable body an account of 
my labours as geologist, etc. of the state. The adjoined pages 
and map contain the geological description and a dalineation of 
Davidson, Williamson and Maury counties. Nothing is as yet 
known of the geology of the interior -of North America. I have 
therefore endeavored to describe minutely the various strata which 
I have been able to examine in the three counties. I have accurate- 
ly described the accidental substances and organic remains im- 
bedded in the limestone and sandstone. To exhibit to the learned 
world our true geological position, I was forced to enter, in de- 
scribing these accidental substances, into long details, particularly 
respecting the organic remains, which are considered as charac- 
terizing the strata. My labour in this respect is not yet complete 
— the number of organic remains which I haive collected in my 
excursions is so great, that I was not able properly to examine and 
describe them all. My intention is to render that part of my re- 
search as complete as may be in my power, a description of our 
fossils being a great desideratum for the European geologists. It 
