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SOILS. 



object is to give such facts as have been fairly well established 

 by observation, hoping that more thorough investigations in 

 the same line will thereby be stimulated. 



VEGETATIVE BELTS IN NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI. 



The diagram below is a sketch-map of the most northern 

 part of Mississippi, showing the narrow parallel belts of suc- 

 cessive geological formations or terranes running north and 

 south, which bear the varying zones of vegetation character- 

 istic of each one, as indicated in the legend beneath. 



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Fir,. 77. Sketch map of Soil Belts in Northern 



i. east and west. 



SOIL KKi.UiNS MK XnKllllKN MIsMsMITI, sll'WINi, < 1 1 \ \ i , I > FROM 1- AVf TO 

 Wlsl, AND UMh I'l RCENTAGES IN SOILS. 



Liint'sfi>ne Belt. Beginning on the east we have, first, a narrow belt 

 of limestones of the carboniferous formation, on which there is a fine 



