24 PLANT 1,1 KK <>K ALAHAMA. 



Avutors wliicli imitr with llic W anior l\i\t'r li:i\ f a fall of only KJl feet, 

 t)r r> inches in a iiiih'. It is lor this n-ason that the W aiTJor River 

 ris(>s duriiii:' freshets to the heieht of .')(> feet at 'I'liscaloosa, the water 

 Ix'iiie- suddenly ehci'ked l»y the diminished fall and t hei-efore aceuinu- 

 latine- at that point. Al)o\ e 'i'usealoosa the W'aiiior or l;la<k \\'an'i()r 

 Ki\er is not navigahh'. 



("oosA KI^■I•:l{. 



This is the largest of the trilmtaries of the Alahania and is formed 

 by the junction of the Oostenaula and Ktowah rivers at Rome, in 

 uortheni (Georgia. After a southerly course of UH) miles, the river 

 enters Alabama in Cherokee County, where, continuing its southerly 

 trend, it joins the Tallapoosa River at a distance of 334 miles from 

 Rome. The river is navigable from Rome to Clreensport, a distance 

 of 180 miles. From the latter point to Wetumpka, a distance of 137 

 miles, navigation is interrupted by a series of shoals and reefs of 

 ragged rocks, but from the latter point it is navigable again to its 

 confluence with the Tallapoosa River. The chief tributaries of the 

 Coosa River take their rise in the Blue Ridge and the Alleghenies of 

 Georgia. The I tanks of this river arc mostly high. It passes through 

 a country rich in its mineral, agricultural, and forest wealth. 



CAHABA RIVER AND SMALLER STREAMS. 



Th(^ Cahaba is one of the smaller tributaries of the Alabama, into 

 which it empties 289 miles above Mo})ile. It takes its rise in the 

 lower hill country in or near St. Clair County, draining a mineral 

 region containing the coal field of the same name, and passing through 

 the rich agricultural counties of Perry and Dallas. In former years 

 steamers ascended from its mouth to Centerville. in Bib!) County, a 

 distance of 80 miles. 



Smaller streams affecting the drainage of the Coastal plain east of 

 the basin of the Alabama River are the F^scambia River and the Choc- 

 tawhatchee River, the former emptying into Pensacola Bay, The 

 Chattahoochee River, with an almost directly southern flow, forms the 

 boundary between Alabama and southwestern Georgia, forming by its 

 confluence with the Flint River of the latter State the Apalacliicola 

 River, a deep stream, to its mouth inclosed mostly between extensive 

 forest-clad swamps and cypress brakes, and emptying into Apalachi- 

 cola Bay. The Chattahoochee River is navigable throughout the \'ear 

 between Bainbridge and Columbus, Ga. Its banks are lined with 

 steep blufls of the later Tertiary strata. 



CLIMATE. 



Owing to its geographical position, extending from its northern 

 contiues to the Gulf shore, over five degrees of latitude, and further to 



