Excerpt from Delaware College Agricultural Experiment Station: Report on Forest Conditions in Delaware and a Forest Policy for the State Delaware forms the eastern half of the northern part of the penin sula lying between the Chesapeake Bay on the west, and the Delaware River, Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean on the east. It extends about 100 miles north and south, and varies in width from 9 to 36 miles. It has an approximate area of square miles of land sur face, or about acres. 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.