Report Of Progress In The District Of York And Adams Counties

Author : Persifor Frazer
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ISBN 13 : 9781331966715
Total Pages : 232 pages
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Download or read book Report of Progress Catalogue in the District York and Adams Counties written by Persifor Frazer and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of Progress Catalogue in the District York and Adams Counties: Illustrated by Maps and Cross-Sections, Showing the Iron Ore Belts and Individuals Mines; With Descriptions of the Same, Notes of a Transit Line to Establish Altitudes, and a Catalogue of Specimens Collected and Placed in the Museum at Harrisburg Sir: - In preparing to carry out your instructions to study the ores along the line of the Codorus, I placed my aid, Mr. Ambrose E. Lehman, on active field duty on July 13. I myself was not able to go into the field till July 20, on which date the third member of my regular party, Mr. Allen, also joined me. Mr. J. W. Edwards joined me a few days later as volunteer aid, and remained with me till his assignment to other duties by the Chief Geologist. My head quarters were established at York, York county Pa., whence it was my plan to project a net work of intersecting lines north-eastward to the Susquehanna, and south-westward to the Maryland line below Littlestown, in Adams county. My work was very much hampered at first by the lack of suitable surveying instruments, and this embarrasment was the greater because the first lines run were necessarily of greatest importance. All the work represented by road lines on general map (No. 1) was accomplished by the aid of a small Breithaupt compass, and the distances obtained by pacing, except the test circuit line which, starting from York, proceeds four miles north north-east to Smyser's bank, thence south south-east to Longstown; thence south south-west to Logansville; thence west south-west to Zigler's slate quarries; thence west south-west to Jefferson; thence west south-west two and a half miles to fork of road near Metzel's mill thence four miles south to Hofacker's. Resuming the line at Metzel's mills, four and a half miles west to Hanover; thence seven miles west south-west to Littlestown; thence four miles west south-west to the Maryland line, (Mason and Dixon's, ) and five and a half miles cast along the same. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.