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did not pass. A part of the above statements the journals of
the House and Senate will prove, and for the other part

I HAVE LIVING EVIDENCE AND WRITTEN PROOF.

Having thus far treated exclusively of the composition of the
soil and its formation, of manures, their properties, composition,
uses, and mode of application, and indeed of every thing at
present known capable of leading to their proper and economical
application, I now come to speak of the soils of such counties
as have been visited by me since my last report.

I refer to Carroll and Baltimore counties, and the tide water
part of Harford county.

As I have been by some newspapers, and perhaps orally by
some persons, (both being influenced by any other than truthful
or honest motives,) accused of neglecting my duty, I here state
that, whenever I have commenced to make an examination of
a county, I have caused the fact to be announced in all of its
public papers as well as those in the City of Baltimore hav-
ing the largest circulation, and have in the former, at my own
expense, given proper direction for the taking of samples of soil,
&c, and that in every instance where these directions have been
complied with, the analyses have been made, and furnished their
owners; I have also desired in these advertisements that any
person or persons who required my services in any part of the
counties for particular examinations, should receive them on my
being informed of their wish; to all of these requests I have
attended when it was proper for me to do so.

CARROLL COUNTY.                               

This county, formed out of part of Baltimore and Frederick
counties, is bounded by Mason's and Dixon's Line on the north,
by Frederick county on the west, by the Patapsco river separat-
ing it from Howard county on the south, and by Baltimore
county on the east. This county being formed for the conveni-
ence of the citizens in it out of the counties from which it was
formed, its boundaries were made for their political convenience
and not as divisions between separate varieties of soil or dif-
ferent geological formations. Some of its soils are therefore
similar to those in Frederick and other counties, as only a line
(that which has length without breadth) divides them.

Red Lands: Beginning in the northwestern part of the county and extend-
ing our route through the Middleburg and Taneytown Districts, and in some
parts of Uniontown, until we meet with the mica slate soils hereafter to be de-
scribed, we have a variety of soils known as red lands, similar in geological for-
mation with those found in Frederick county, as described in my last report, and
only differing in their agricultural value in being more decomposed, and having
generally a deeper soil. They are underlaid by compact shales, sometimes,