MARYLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 239
1823.

ANON. Report by the Maryland Commission on a Proposed Canal
from Baltimore to Conowago, with maps and profiles. Baltimore,
1823.

(Rev.) N. A. Rev., vol. xviii, 1824, p. 217.

Gives many figures on Maryland elevations based on lines of level run from Balti-
more to York and to Havre de Grace.

.1824.

FINCH, JOHN. Geological Essay on the Tertiary Formations in Am-
erica. (Read Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., July 15, 1823.)

Amer. Joxir. Sci., vol. vii, 1824, pp. 31-43.

Objects to Maclure's use of Alluvium and shows that the formations so called are
mostly Tertiary. Several Maryland localities studied.

HARPER, GENERAL [R. S.]. Speech to the Citizens of Baltimore
on the expediency, of promoting a connexion Between the Ohio, at
Pittsburg and the waters of the Chesapeake at Baltimore by a Canal
through the District of Columbia, with his reply to some of the objec-
tions of Mr. Winchester.

Delivered at a meeting held at the Exchange on the 20th day of Decem-
ber, 1823. Baltimore, 1824, 78 pp., map.

(Rev.) N. A. Rev., vol. xviii, 1824, p. 217.

SAY, THOMAS. An Account of some of the Fossil Shells of Mary-
land.

Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. iv, 1824, pp. 124-155. Plates 7-13.
Tentatively correlates Maryland deposits with those of South Carolina and then
discusses and figures 3S new species.

SHRIVER, JAMES. An Account of the Examination and Surveys,
with Remarks and Documents relative to the projected Chesapeake
and Ohio and Lake Erie Canals. Baltimore, 1824, pp. 116, map.

Contains an account of surveys and observations made along the summit of Alle-
ghany mountain during a location survey of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Includes
remarks on the minerals and geological formations of the area traversed.

1825.

BERNARD, S., and TOTTEN, JAS. E. Report of the Board of Internal
Improvement on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Feb. 2, 1825.
See Merrill, 1874.

CHAMBERS, E. F. Report of the Commissioners concerning the
Western Limits of the State. Annapolis, n. d. 8vo. 7 pp. [1825].
Md. Public Documents.*

* There seems to be no standard title for these publications, as they are variously
named even in the sets of the State Library. They are also bound up differently.