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Excerpt from Report on the Geology and Agriculture: Of the State of Mississippi If the method to be pursued in investigations of this kind, is subject to differences of opinion (sufficiently great to have caused the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at one of its late sessions, to appoint a committee composed of some of the first men of science to examine the question), such is no less the case with reference to the manner of presenting the results to the public. It would seem that this point also must be considered as being, in a great measure, subject to variation according to the necessities of each case and such being my conviction, it has been my aim throughout to answer, as far as I could, the questions bear ing Upon the subjects in hand, which experience had taught me were afloat, and 'being agitated, among the people, whether of a single neighborhood or district, or of the whole State in such connection, and, as much as possible, in such language as I knew would make it understood at the points for which it was intended, even though the expressions employed might not in all cases be deducible from any authentic philological source. I am aware that in so doing, I have laid myself open to some criticism in a literary point of view but I hope that the practical consideration just referred to may serve, in some measure, as an extenuation of the fault. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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