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of the flatwoods is 10 to 25 feet above the Indian River, and there 

 are many little ravine-like valleys carved by short streams, as if the 

 area had been uplifted in comparatively recent times. Near the lake 

 region the topography is often a little undulating, and the transi- 

 tion from one region to the other gradual, though there are also 

 places where it is abrupt. Shallow depressions abound, ranging 



Fig. 26. Prairie bordering Lake Tohopekaliga about 3>^ miles east of 

 Kissinimee, with a few cattle grazing. Abrupt transition to flatwoods with 

 long-leaf pine and saw-palmetto in middle distance. Feb. 18, 1909. 



Fig. 27. Asphalt road through flatwoods in Osceola County, about ten 

 miles southeast of St. Cloud (the nearest town) and a mile from the nearest 

 house. April 27, 1920. 



