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United States, but they are rarely shown on maps and are very 
little known outside of their immediate vicinity. The only 
measurement of their altitude which I can find was made some 
years ago over G. M.& G.R. R. tunnel thirteen miles below 
Woodbury, and is 1,148 feet. This range passes within two or 
three miles of Woodbury, where the Flint River cuts through it 
in a narrow gap or gorge about 400 feet deep. Most of my 
collecting among the Pine Mountains was done in the vicinity of 
this gap, in Meriwether and Upson Counties. The mountains are 
very steep, especially in the vicinity of the river, where they rise 
abruptly from the water’s edge with a slope of about 45°. The 
Fic. 3, Pine Mountains near Woodbury, showing gap of Flint River; looking 
southeastward from an isolated peak near the river. Aug. 29. 
rock of which they are composed is a hard sandstone, which gives 
rise on disintegration to a very sandy soil, supporting a flora 
which is quite different from that of eastern Middle Georgia and 
resembles in many ways that of the coastal plain. 
These mountains take their name from Pinus palustris, which 
is abundant all over them, often attaining as large dimensions as 
in the pine-barrens of South Georgia. Its occurrence here is not 
mentioned in even the most recent publications of the state agri- 
cultural department, and was therefore entirely unexpected. I 
