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Page 127 - Tide-water, Notes on Interesting Places on the Routes, and a Description of each of the Formations. By JAMES MACFARLANE, Ph.
Page 52 - A Report to the Navy Department of the United States on American Coals, Applicable to Steam Navigation, and to other purposes.
Page 132 - A view of the Lead Mines of Missouri : including some observations on the mineralogy, geology, geography, antiquities, soil, climate, population, and productions of Missouri and Arkansaw, and other sections of the Western Country.
Page 17 - Geological Report of the Country along the line of the Southwestern Branch of the Pacific Railroad, State of Missouri.
Page 50 - Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 2d inst.
Page 15 - First and Second Annual Reports of the Geological Survey of Missouri, by GC Swallow, State Geologist, 448 pages, 17 plates, 18 sections, 26 figures and 5 maps, 8 vo.
Page 125 - January 10, 1851. <First Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Pacific Railroad ; and the Report of the Chief Engineer upon the Preliminary Surveys. St. Louis, Mo.: Printed at the Republican Book and Job Office.
Page 140 - History of Southeast Missouri, Embracing an Historical Account of the Counties of Ste. Genevieve, St. Francois, Perry, Cape Girardeau, Bollinger, Madison, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Dunklin, Scott, Mississippi, Stoddard, Butler, Wayne, and Iron, and Including a Department Devoted to the Preservation of Personal, Professional and Private Records.
Page 91 - On the Surface Geology of the Basin of the Great Lakes and the Valley of the Mississippi.
Page 126 - Description of the Missourium, or Missouri Leviathan, together with its supposed habits ; Indian traditions concerning the location from whence it was exhumed ; also, comparisons of the Whale, Crocodile, and Missourium with the Leviathan, as described in the 41st Chapter of the Book of Job ; by Albert Koch.