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able extent, the leaders in this case being Post Oak, Blackjack 

 Oak and Red Oak (Q. falcata), each with 4 per cent. The 

 region contains more large towns and cities in proportion to its 

 area than any other portion of the State, and the wood-manufac- 

 turing industries are numerous and varied. It contains nearly 

 12 per cent, of the total number of sawmills in the State. The 

 charcoal iron furnaces of the region consume the equivalent of 

 152 million board feet, mostly pine, a year. 



The Blue Ridge Region covers only 400 square miles in Ala- 

 bama, 90 per cent, of which is under forest cover. The pines 

 compose about one-third of the forest, and no single species of 

 the hardwoods of the 26 listed enters into the composition to a 

 greater extent than 10 percent. The Piedmont Region is com- 

 posed of granitic, gneissic and schistose rocks, which yield residual 

 red clay, gray loam and shaly soils. The topography is that of 

 a maturely dissected plateau. The region occupies about 5,000 

 square miles in Alabama, and is about one-half forested. The 

 three pines Loblolly, Longleaf and Shortleaf make up approxi- 

 mately one third, the members of the oak family one- fourth of 

 the forests. About 4 per cent, of the State's wood-working in- 

 dustries are located in the region. 



The author divides the Coastal Plain into ten regions, with 

 several subregions. The Central Pine Region, for example, is 

 divided into the Shortleaf Pine Belt (meaning the Loblolly Pine), 

 the Longleaf Pine Hills and the Eutaw Belt. The Shortleaf Pine 

 Belt borders the fall line across the State, and has an area of 5100 

 square miles. Although the region belongs to the coastal plain 

 geologically, it has much in common with the hill country floris- 

 ticly, and as a result it seems to have the largest number Cf 

 species, yy trees being listed. The soils are sandy and about 

 three-fourth of them are covered by forests. Approximately 

 20 per cent, of the sawmills and 15 per cent, of the wood-working 

 industries of the State are located in this region, which has only 

 9.8 per cent, of the area. As the name indicates, the Longleaf 

 Pine Hills are sandy hills, rising about 250 feet above the val- 

 leys, covered with Longleaf Pine. They have an area of about 

 850 square miles. The Eutaw Belt is based upon a geological 

 formation of that name and its forests do not seem to differ 

 materially from those of the Shortleaf Pine Belt. 



Although the Black Belt derives its name from the color of 



