[Footnote 28: Correspondence of William Tudor, Jr., while consul, etc.,
of the United States to Peru and chargé d'affaires at Rio de Janeiro.]
WASHINGTON, _February 24, 1837_.
_To the House of Representatives_:
I transmit a letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, accompanied by
various documents, in relation to a survey recently made of the mouths
of the Mississippi River under a law of the last session of Congress.