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soil. From Horry County, S. C., to Onslow County, N. C., it 
passes gradually southeastward into the Wilmington or Cape Fear 
pine-barrens, with a much larger proportion of Pinus palustris 
and less P. Taeda. From Carteret County, N. C., to Nansemond 
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County, Va., the Nansemond escarpment, parallel to the Virginia 
fall-line,* separates it from the region of oak and beech flats with 
more silty soil, in which Dismal Swamp is situated. In South 
Carolina the belt under consideration corresponds approximately 
with the ‘upper pine belt” of Hammond and other nineteenth 
century geographers. 
* See Hobbs, Rep. 8th Int. Geog. Cong. (1903), line III on map opposite p. 196. 
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