The Great 

 Southern Pine 

 Belt 



The Coastal Lowlands from Cape Hatteras to 

 the Mississippi and the Western Timberiands 



We now enter a land that contains, among other things, what 

 the average North American calls the Deep South, or at least a 

 fair share of it. But on the whole it has very few of what are 

 popularly considered the essential attributes of that area. The 

 real land of magnolias and belles, tobacco and cotton and stately 

 tradition, is the eastern Piedmont of Appalachia, since the best 

 land, which was first settled, lies there on the old continental 

 plain above that slight escarpment known as the fall line. All 

 the great centers of culture and now of industry lie along that 

 line- Raleigh, North Carolina; Columbia, South Carolina; 

 Atlanta. Macon, and Columbus, Georgia; Birmingham and Mont- 

 gomery, Alabama; and so on. With the exception of Tallahassee, 

 there are no big towns within this vast area, all that there are 

 being coastal ports — Wilmington and Charleston in South Caro- 

 lina; Savannah and Brunswick in Georgia; Jacksonville and the 



Above: The Carpenter Frog (Rana virgatipes). common in 

 the bogs of this province, makes a noise just like two car- 

 penters driving nails a little off beat. Left: The Suwannee 

 River, part of the border between the great Southern Pine 

 Belt and peninsular Florida, is banked by lush forests. 



