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LECTURE. Ib my inaugural address before the Legislature of this
State, delivered last March, I gave a sketch of the mining history
of the United States, with statistical notices of our mineral
industry, as compared with that of other countries. I also gave
some account of what has been done in other countries in the way of
Geological Surveys, and of our own State Surveys. Some hints were
incorporated into that address, touching the objects and aims of
geological investigations, and what might be expected to be
accomplished by the Survey of California. Furthermore, I showed how
our work was planned and arranged, into what departments it was
divided, to carry out the provisions of the Act by which the Survey
was authorized, and gave some idea of what we hoped to be able to
accomplish in each of these. I also promised to devote the best
years of my life to this great work, with a single eye to the
interests of the State in whose service I had just entered. Since
that address was delivered, the work of the Survey has been going
on uninterruptedly, and, I trust, successfully. We have worn out
much shoe-leather in the service of the State, have climbed
mountains and threaded canons, and made ourselves familiarly
acquainted with the pleasures of climbing up chaparral-covered
peaks in a mild temperature of one hundred and fifty degrees, or
thereabouts, and a pack load of specimens and instruments on our
backs. We have escaped perils by flood and field, have evaded the
friendly embrace of the grizzly, and now find ourselves in the jaws
of the Legislature. In a letter addressed to Governor Downey just
at the close of the past year, I gave a brief synopsis of our
doings up to that time, and mentioned what additions had been made
to our corps, stating that we were now organized and a...
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