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from the trains that pass four or five times a clay does not benefit the 

 cliff vegetation any, and whenever a new coal mine is opened or a 

 sawmill located near the river, houses are built nearby, necessitating 

 clearing away some of the forest. The best long-leaf pines on the 

 adjacent hills were cut by lumbermen about seven years ago, and in 

 some places the logs are rolled down the bluffs to the river or some 

 creek, necessitating cutting a swath through the vegetation. A de- 

 velopment which may be looked for almost any day is the building 

 of summer homes on the bluffs by some of Tuscaloosa's ''idle rich," 

 with a consequent scattering of tin cans and other rubbish in the 

 adjacent ravines. But at any rate, the topography is so broken that 

 little of the area is likely to be molested in the near future by farmers, 

 and there will probably be some interesting vegetation there to study 

 Lor a generation or two yet. 



