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RESOURCES OF SOUTHERN ALABAMA. 



pers and other publications, backed by trustworthy statis- 

 tics from the census and other sources. It also brings out 

 many significant correlations between soil, climate, vegeta- 

 tion, population, agriculture, etc., that probably have not 

 been pointed out before, but ought to hold good over much 

 wider areas. 



GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS 



OF SOUTHERN ALABAMA 



ROLAND M. H 



1918 



or METC.ICU 



FIG. 1. Map of southern Alabama, showing regions herein de- 

 scribed and a few others farther inland. (The present report deals 

 only with those south of the blue marl region.) Scale about 1 to 

 3,750,000, or 60 miles to the inch. 



The dotted areas in the western half represent the Buhrstone 

 mountains. 



DIVERSITY OF THE AREA TREATED. 



.The area treated (shown on the accompanying map) is 

 that part of Alabama underlaid by Tertiary strata, almost 

 exactly a third of the State, or 17,000 square miles. Al- 

 though it is a part of the coastal plain, it is very diversified, 

 and to treat it as a unit for descriptive and statistical pur- 

 poses would obscure some very significant facts. On the 



