Report on the Water-Power of the Eastern Gulf Slope (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Receding northward from the Gulf, the land gradually rises, and in Alabama to a distance inland of 100 or 1257 miles we are upon the Tertiary formation. In Georgia this reaches still farther to the north, and, excepting a narrow strip in the west, is limited approximately. By a line running from Columbus northeasterly through Macon to Augusta. This southern division is distinguished by a gently-undulating surface, a thin sandy soil, capable, however, of easy and great improvement, an extremely healthful climate, and perhaps is most noted as including the great pine-belt. Almost everywhere there is a magnificent growth of the long-leafed pine, with much hard wood also intermingled. The cutting and rafting of timber is an active and growing industry along most of the streams, but has not yet been in general sofifar prosecuted as seriously to diminish the supply.

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