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Excerpt from Physical Survey of Virginia: Her Geographical Position; Its Commercial Advantages, and National Importance
In entering upon the duties of the office which has been assigned me in connection with the noble State Institution over oh you preside, it has appeared most advisable, first to collect and embody in a series of Preliminary Reports, all existing informa tion bearing upon the objects of the survey.
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Excerpt from Physical Survey of Virginia: Her Geographical Position; Its Commercial Advantages, and National Importance
These advantages are so pervading, that other States with the na tion at large are as much interested in turning them to account as is Virginia herself.
Naturally and both In a geographical and military point of View, Norfolk with Hampton Roads at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay as its lower harbor, and San Francisco inside of the Golden Gate in California, occupy - one on the Pacific, the other on the At lantic - the most important maritime position that lie within the domains of the United States.
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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.