Davis, Jefferson; Barnard, J. G. Report of the Secretary of War, In compliance with A resolution of the Senate of the 16th of August last, calling for information respecting the ice-breaker and breakwater at the entrance of Delaware bay, the erection of a mole or pier opposite thereto, and a marine hospital at Lewistown; also for the construction of a breakwater on Crow shoal. Washington: A. O. P. Nicholson, Printer, 1857. First Edition. [12536]
Removed, no wrapper, 9 x 5 1/2 inches, 13 pp. Good. Disbound.
34th Congress, 3d Session, Senate Ex. Doc. No. 9.
The United States Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis, transmits the report of the chief engineer, "giving the information and estimates required in regard to connecting the ice-breaker with the breakwater at the entrance of Delaware bay, and for the construction of a breakwater on Crow shoal, near Cape May."
Includes charts from 1833 to 1849 with the number for each year of ships, brigs, schooners, and sloops taking shelter in the Delaware breakwater, showing the value of improving the area for their use.
