﻿A 
  week 
  in 
  eastern 
  Texas 
  

  

  RoLAVp 
  M. 
  Harper 
  

  

  (with 
  five 
  text 
  figures) 
  

  

  IXTRODUCTIOX 
  

  

  )fthe 
  coastal 
  plain 
  in 
  Texas.— 
  Oi 
  the 
  fifty 
  or 
  more 
  geo- 
  

  

  gra 
  

  

  topography 
  

  

  few 
  extend 
  through 
  more 
  than 
  two 
  states, 
  or 
  are 
  as 
  much 
  as 
  two 
  

   hundred 
  miles 
  in 
  longest 
  dimension 
  ; 
  and 
  none 
  of 
  the 
  divisions 
  in 
  

   Texas, 
  with 
  the 
  possible 
  exception 
  of 
  the 
  red 
  hills 
  in 
  the 
  extreme 
  

   east,' 
  can 
  be 
  closely 
  correlated 
  geographically 
  with 
  anything 
  east 
  of 
  

   the 
  Mississippi 
  River. 
  The 
  number 
  of 
  natural 
  regions 
  in 
  the 
  

   Texas 
  coastal 
  plain, 
  between 
  the 
  Red 
  River 
  on 
  the 
  north, 
  the 
  

   Sabine 
  on 
  the 
  east, 
  and 
  the 
  Rio 
  Grande 
  on 
  the 
  southwest, 
  cannot 
  

   yet 
  be 
  stated 
  with 
  exactness, 
  but 
  must 
  be 
  at 
  least 
  a 
  dozen. 
  The 
  

   first 
  noteworthy 
  attempt 
  to 
  map 
  them 
  seems 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  that 
  of 
  

   Dr. 
  R. 
  H. 
  Loughridge, 
  in 
  his 
  report 
  on 
  cotton 
  production 
  in 
  Texas, 
  

   in 
  th^ 
  5th 
  volume 
  of 
  the 
  Tenth 
  Census, 
  1884 
  (colored 
  map 
  facing 
  

   page 
  671).* 
  This 
  covered 
  the 
  whole 
  state, 
  and 
  is 
  probably 
  more 
  

   accurate 
  for 
  the 
  coastal 
  plain 
  than 
  for 
  the 
  remainder, 
  for 
  there 
  were 
  

   no 
  railroads 
  in 
  the 
  western 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  state 
  in 
  those 
  days. 
  In 
  the 
  

   accompanying 
  text 
  the 
  various 
  regions 
  were 
  described, 
  with 
  

  

  re 
  fere 
  

  

  agric 
  

  

  900 
  Robert 
  T. 
  Hill 
  published 
  in 
  "Topograph 
  

  

  of 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  Geological 
  Survey 
  an 
  excellent 
  regional 
  map 
  of 
  Texas 
  

  

  Mexico 
  

  

  writer-* 
  referred 
  to 
  below 
  ;t 
  

  

  * 
  A 
  worthy 
  successor 
  to 
  Loughridge's 
  map 
  is 
  a 
  colored 
  soil 
  map 
  of 
  the 
  principal 
  

   cotton-producing 
  regions 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States, 
  by 
  H. 
  H. 
  Bennett, 
  on 
  page 
  8 
  of 
  the 
  

   section 
  of 
  the 
  folio 
  Atlas 
  of 
  American 
  Agriculture 
  devoted 
  to 
  cotton, 
  pubhshed 
  by 
  

  

  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  Department 
  of 
  Agriculture 
  early 
  in 
  IQIQ- 
  

  

  t 
  The 
  same 
  map 
  appeared 
  the 
  following 
  year 
  as 
  Plate 
  r 
  (opposite 
  page 
  26) 
  of 
  a 
  

   ponderous 
  monograph 
  on 
  the 
  Black 
  and 
  Grand 
  Prairies 
  of 
  Texas 
  by 
  the 
  same 
  author, 
  

   which 
  constitutes 
  Part 
  7 
  of 
  the 
  21st 
  Annual 
  Report 
  of 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  Geological 
  Survey, 
  

   and 
  is 
  more 
  accessible 
  than 
  the 
  Topographic 
  Folio* 
  

  

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