Excerpt from Memoir of the Geological Survey of the State of Delaware: Including the Application of the Geological Observations to Agriculture

When we observe the mode of action of our state legislatures and indeed of our national congress, it is to be feared that local preja dices and interests often exert too powerful an influence over their deliberations to the detriment of grand national undertakings. It appears to me, however, that the true interests of the citizen and the republic are more intimately blended together, and that what advances the reputation or monetary resources of an individual without interfering with those of another, elevates the standing and power of the nation. If this be true of one individual much more will it apply to a body of citizens - that benefits accruing to a district of country, other things being equal, must necessarily bear their influence on the whole country. Guided by these views I have sometimes devoted a larger share of time and ob servation to such formations as were deemed of greater importance in one part of a county than to those situated in other portions of the same county: thus the green sand region has been more tho roughly examined than any other part of New Castle county; the two tertiary belts in Kent, and the modern shell beds in Sus sex were believed to be of more value than other deposites in those counties and were therefore more closely investigated. For the same reason, fewer examinations were conducted on the ridge and neck lands; for the true geological formations which were the primary object of the survey are more open to the observer in the intermediate region, while in the two former they are either wanting or so covered by more modern deposites as to forbid observation.

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