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Title: Report on the agriculture and geology of Mississippi. Embracing a sketch of the social and natural history of the state
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Mississippi. State Geologist Wailes, Benjamin L. C. (Benjamin Leonard Covington), 1797-1862
Subjects: Geology Agriculture Natural history
Publisher: (Jackson) E. Barksdale, State Printer
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theNew Orleans market. One contract for sand from the White Cliffs, for theCustom-house in New Orleans, amounted to upwards oftwenty-eight thousand dollars, and in this connection itmay be mentioned that several boat-loads of pebble andconglomerate were obtained from the talus of theNatchez Bluffs for the foundation of the same building,and for that of the State House in Baton Rouge. Taking the State at large, the ferruginous sand depo-sits greatly predominate; they are seen on the Missis-sippi only at Fort Adams overlying the diluvial gravel.They spread widely over the County of Wilkinson, andare exposed in heavy deposits in every ravine or naturalsection, associated with the plastic clays, conglomerate,and gravel; passing thence eastwardly through Amite,Pike, and Marion Counties. They can be traced almost uninterruptedly east ofPearl River from the sea-shore to the Tennessee line,intervening, as it were, between the prairie lands and Pa.6e 229 SECTION on BRANDON RAIL ROAD Plate XII
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