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Excerpt from Report of the Joint Committee of 1860 Upon the Proposed Canal to Unite Barnstable and Buzzard's Bays: Under the Resolve of April 4, 1860, and Subsequent Resolves and Votes of the Legislature 1. Plan and Survey made under the direction of the Committee, by J. G. Chase, Engineer. 2. Flan and Survey made by W. H. Dennis by the U. S. Coast Survey Corps. 3. Diagrams accompanying Mr. Mitchell's Report, from 1 to 6, inclusive. 4. Soundings in Barnstable Bay. A re-survey, under the direction of John Wilkinson, U.S.N. 1860. Soundings in Buzzard's Bay. A tracing from a Survey made under the direction of Lieutenant Commanding G.S. Blake, U.S.N., Assistant U.S. Coast Survey. 1845. 5.Flan and Report of Thomas Machin. 1776. In the Secretary's office. 6. Plan of John Hills.1791. In the Secretary's office. 7. Survey of Mr. Bacheller. Not found. 8. Plan and Survey of L.Baldwin. 1818.A tracing used. The original is in the Bureau of Topographical Engineers, Washington. 9. Flan and Survey of Major Perault 1825. A tracing used. 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.