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Surface streams are few and small, and probably none of them 

 connect above ground with any river. Just north of our limits there 

 are a few large shallow lakes which become dry or nearly so at 

 times. The highest elevations in the region seem to be about 190 

 feet above sea-level. 



Soils. By both chemical and physical tests the soils average the 

 best in central Florida, running pretty high in clay and in lime, as 

 can be seen from the analyses in another chapter. In the soil 

 survey of the "Ocala area" they are referred to the "Gainesville," 

 "Norfolk," "Fellowship" and "Leon" series, and the texture classes, 

 in order of area, are loamy sand, sandy loam, sand, and clay loam, 

 the first constituting about 38% and the last about 1%. Scrub 

 seems to be entirely absent. 



Fig. 13. 

 13, 1915- 



Semii-calcareous hammock about a mile southeast of Ocala. Feb. 



Vegetation. The vegetation types of the southern extremity 

 of the region were described in considerable detail and mapped in 

 the 7th Annual Report. In order of area the principal types seem 

 to be high pine land, red oak woods (fig. 41), high calcareous (or 

 semi-calcareous) hammocks (fig. 13), short-leaf pine and hickory 

 woods (this mostly north of the "Ocala area''), sandy hammocks 



