Memoirs of Anne C.L. Botta,: written by her friends. With selections from her correspondence and from her writings in prose and poetry.

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ture only for its picturesque beauty, and art will have much to
accomplish before it will compare with Mount Auburn, Green wood, or the beautiful cemetery on the heights of Georgetown,
which has just been completed at a cost of fifty thousand dollars,
and presented to the city by Mr. Corcoran. This lovely dell is
wooded with native forest-trees and laid out with great skill and
taste; an entrance lodge and a small stone chapel add much to
its beauty.
Near the Capitol is the office of the Coast Survey, one of the
most important of the government works. The project for the
survey of our thirty thousand miles of coast, which has been in
operation since 1832, is probably more perfectly organized than
that of any other country. The object is to form accurate maps
of our extended seaboard, to ascertain the latitude and longitude
of the principal points, the topography of the country parallel to
the coast, the nature of the bottom of the sea accessible to the
sounding-line, the position of bars, harbors, and channels, the
direction and depth of currents, the declination of the magnetic
needle, and every particular connected with the improvement of
navigation and the defense of the coast. Upon their observations
the most correct geographical maps are constructed. The charts
exhibit the foundation of the bottom of the sea, specimens of
which are collected, and which not only serve as indications to
the navigator, but are also of great interest to the naturalist, as
they are found to contain organisms of great variety and minuteness, showing that at different depths of the sea, as on land,
distinct species have their places assigned them. The development of the laws which govern the distribution of these infusoria,
by which an elevation or depression, however gradual, may be
detected, will be found of great importance to the geologist. The
charts of the Coast Survey, invaluable to our commerce, are
copied by an ingenious application of the electrotype to the
original plate, which remains almost unimpaired, and immediately furnished to the public at a low cost. Among other discoveries that have signalized the progress of the Coast Survey, is
that of a new channel, more straight and deep, into the harbor
of New-York; sunken rocks have been indicated, the Gulf Stream,
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