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Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating a report of a geological reconnoissance of the Chippewa land district of Wisconsin, and the northern part of Iowa, by David Dale Owen. June 22, 1848. -- Read, and ordered to be printed. June 24, 1848. -- Reconsidered, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. July 3, 1848. -- Ordered to be printed, and that 2,000 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate.

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  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (134 pages) : color maps, illustrations, tables
  • Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : [publisher not identified], 1848.

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General Note:
Appendix, p. 131.
Batch processed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes.
FDLP item number not assigned.
Report of J.G. Norwood, M.D., assistant geologist, follows p. 72.
Subject: Norwood, Joseph Granville.
Bodies of water.
Cartography.
Copper.
Description and travel.
Discoveries in geography.
Discovery and exploration.
Farms.
Fossils.
Geological surveys.
Granite.
Land use.
Lead.
Limestone.
Magnesium.
Mineralogy > Research.
Mines and mineral resources.
Natural resources.
Public lands.
Rivers.
Soils.
Surveying.
Iowa.
Lake Superior.
Mississippi River.
Montreal River (Mich.)
Red Cedar River (Wis.)
Turkey River (Iowa)
Wisconsin River (Wis.)
Wisconsin.
Genre: Legislative materials.