HARPER: VEGETATION OF THE COASTAL PLAIN 421 
ago,* so that not much is left of their original vegetation. In 
topography, soil, vegetation, proportion of cleared land, and a few 
other features, this region strikingly resembles some river-bottoms 
farther south, particularly in the Cretaceous region of Georgia 
and Alabama.f 
This region was mapped by Kerr in 1884f as the ‘‘oak and beech 
flats with short-leaf pine,’ and parts of it have since been de- 
scribed by Shaler in the work just cited, by Kearney in his well- 
known Dismal Swamp report, by Darton in the ‘Norfolk folio”’ 
of the U. S. Geological Survey,§ and by J. E. Lapham and others 
in the government soil surveys of the “Norfolk area,’’ Virginia, 
and Pasquotank, Perquimans, and Chowan counties, North 
Carolina. 
The plants observed between Edenton and Norfolk are as fol- 
lows: 
TREES 
39 Pinus Taeda 8 Nyssa uniflora 
37 Liquidambar Styraciflua 6 Cornus florida 
16 Taxodium distichum 5 Liriodendron Tulipifera 
I2 Acer rubrum 5 Magnolia glauca 
I1 Fagus grandifolia 4 Quercus Phellos 
9 Nyssa biflora 3 Quercus falcata 
9 Salix nigra 3 Quercus alba 
9 Pinus serotina 3 Oxydendron arboreum 
: SHRUBS 
17 Arundinaria tecta 4 Phoradendron css 
12 Myrica cerifera 2 Aralia spinosa 
8 Alnus rugosa : 2 Smilax laurifolia 
§ 
6 Rhus copallina 
*The earliest permanent settlements in North Carolina were made in this very 
region about 260 years ago 
+Prof. Collier Cobb, in his North Carolina supplement to Redway & Hinman’s 
Natural Advanced Geography, states that the first settlers were attracted to this 
region by the ‘“‘magnificent bottom land,’”’ among other things. (He tells me that 
this quotation is from pages xxi-xxii of the prefatory notes to vol. I of the Colonial 
Records of North Carolina, by Col. Wm. L. Saunders.) 
Tenth Census U. S., vol. 6, map 12. 
ologic Atlas of the U. S., Folio no. 80. 1902. Unlike most of the earlier 
folios of this series, this one contains several excellent illustrations of the vegetation 
and other scenery (which Mr. Darton tells me are from photographs taken by the 
late Prof. I. C. Russell). Some of the same pictures were used before in the reports 
of Shaler and Kearney already cited, and some have appeared more recently in 
various semipopular magazines, mostly in connection ae articles advocating the 
annihilation of swamps. 
