Barbour, James. Survey - Swash in Pamlico Sound : Letter from the Secretary of War, Transmitting, in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives, A Report and Plan of the Survey of the Swash in Pamlico Sound. Washington: Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1828. First Edition. [11903]
Removed, newly stab-sewn, 12 pp., foxing. Good. Pamphlet.
20th Congress, 1st Session, Doc. No. 69, House of Representatives, War Department.
The Pamlico Sound in North Carolina is the largest lagoon on the North American eastern seaboard. A report detailing methods of improving the Sound for shipping from the ocean up to the Ocracock Inlet, with estimated costs.
"The present state of the navigation at Ocracock is deplorable in the extreme, and the more so because depending upon circumstances so entirely without the control of human efforts, and to leave very little hope of the success of any measures which my be pursued for its improvement, combined with permanency...Ocracock forms the only direct communication between Pamlico Sound and the Ocean; through the Inlet, the produces of all the rivers, as before remarked, emptying in Palmico and Albemarle Sounds, including the Meuse, the Tar, and the Roanoke...finds its way to the sea..." - p. 6.
