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  Harper: 
  A 
  week 
  in 
  eastern' 
  Texas 
  

  

  w 
  

  

  he 
  recognized 
  at 
  that 
  time 
  only 
  four 
  or 
  five 
  divisions 
  in 
  the 
  coastal 
  

  

  plain. 
  Vernon 
  Bailey, 
  in 
  his 
  "Biological 
  survey 
  of 
  Texas 
  

   (U. 
  S. 
  Dept. 
  Agriculture, 
  N. 
  Am. 
  Fauna 
  No. 
  25. 
  Oct., 
  1905), 
  

   discussed 
  the 
  distribution 
  of 
  plants 
  and 
  animals 
  (mainly 
  the 
  

   latter) 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  territory 
  mapped 
  by 
  Hill, 
  with 
  special 
  reference 
  

   to 
  climate, 
  paying 
  very 
  little 
  attention 
  to 
  the 
  pronounced 
  con- 
  

   trasts 
  of 
  soil, 
  and 
  using 
  a 
  colored 
  map 
  that 
  treats 
  the 
  whole 
  

   coastal 
  plain 
  of 
  Texas, 
  east 
  and 
  north 
  of 
  a 
  line 
  drawn 
  through 
  

   Austin 
  and 
  Victoria, 
  as 
  a 
  unit, 
  under 
  the 
  designation 
  of 
  " 
  Austrori- 
  

   parian" 
  area. 
  (The 
  "life-zone" 
  system 
  of 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  Biological 
  

   Survey, 
  being 
  based 
  on 
  climatic 
  factors, 
  does 
  not 
  work 
  out 
  very 
  

   satisfactorily 
  In 
  non-mountainous 
  regions.) 
  In 
  the 
  text, 
  however, 
  

   Bailey 
  admits 
  that 
  the 
  country 
  near 
  the 
  coast 
  has 
  some 
  sub- 
  

   tropical 
  characteristics, 
  and 
  that 
  the 
  flora 
  of 
  the 
  black 
  prairie, 
  coast 
  

   prairie, 
  marshes, 
  Islands 
  and 
  benches 
  is 
  different 
  from 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  

   wooded 
  portions 
  of 
  the 
  humid 
  area. 
  

  

  Another 
  important 
  geographical 
  work, 
  'covering 
  approximately 
  

   the 
  same 
  territory 
  as 
  the 
  present 
  paper, 
  is 
  "Geology 
  and 
  under- 
  

   ground 
  waters 
  of 
  the 
  southeastern 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Texas 
  coastal 
  plam," 
  

   by 
  Alexander 
  Deussen 
  (U. 
  S. 
  Geol. 
  Surv. 
  Water 
  Supply 
  Paper 
  

   335. 
  with 
  365 
  pages 
  and 
  9 
  plates. 
  1914). 
  This 
  includes 
  a 
  pretty 
  

   good 
  though 
  brief 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  regional 
  geography, 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  

   notes 
  on 
  the 
  forest 
  growth. 
  Additional 
  information 
  of 
  a 
  similar 
  

   nature 
  may 
  be 
  gathered 
  from 
  several 
  state 
  and 
  government 
  geologi- 
  

   cal 
  reports 
  which 
  do 
  not 
  need 
  to 
  be 
  enumerated 
  here, 
  and 
  from 
  the 
  

   government 
  soil 
  surveys 
  of 
  various 
  counties.* 
  

  

  A 
  recent 
  study 
  in 
  regional 
  geography, 
  covering 
  the 
  whole 
  

   state, 
  is 
  "Studies 
  In 
  the 
  industrial 
  resources 
  of 
  Texas," 
  by 
  L. 
  H. 
  

   Haney 
  and 
  others, 
  constituting 
  University 
  of 
  Texas 
  Bulletin 
  3 
  of 
  

   the 
  1915 
  series, 
  with 
  105 
  pages, 
  and 
  including 
  a 
  map 
  which 
  divides 
  

  

  ♦Since 
  this 
  manuscript 
  was 
  sent 
  to 
  the 
  editor 
  there 
  has 
  appeared 
  University 
  

   of 
  Texas 
  Bulletin 
  1869 
  (i.e.. 
  no. 
  69 
  of 
  the 
  1918 
  series), 
  on 
  The 
  geology 
  of 
  East 
  

   Texas, 
  by 
  E. 
  T. 
  Dumble. 
  comprising 
  396 
  pages. 
  9 
  half-tone 
  plates, 
  and 
  3 
  loose 
  

   maps. 
  (It 
  IS 
  dated 
  Dec. 
  10, 
  1918. 
  but 
  does 
  not 
  seem 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  published 
  until 
  

   March, 
  1920.) 
  On 
  page 
  271 
  is 
  mentioned 
  a 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  interrupted 
  tongue 
  of 
  the 
  

   coast 
  prairie 
  extending 
  inland 
  to 
  the 
  northwestern 
  portion 
  of 
  Liberty 
  County, 
  but 
  

   the 
  mformation 
  came 
  too 
  late 
  to 
  be 
  utilized 
  in 
  drawing 
  my 
  map, 
  and 
  is 
  hardly 
  defi- 
  

   nite 
  enough 
  anyway. 
  Sundry 
  other 
  references 
  to 
  prairies, 
  mounds, 
  salt 
  lick^ 
  rock 
  

   outcrops, 
  etc.. 
  scattered 
  through 
  the 
  bulletin 
  are 
  of 
  some 
  botanical 
  interest 
  

  

  