Okefenokee Swamp 



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The Okefenokee Swamp. In southern Georgia lies 

 this most interesting of American swamps. It is 

 formed behind a low barrier that lies in a N., N. E. — 

 S., S. W. direction across the broad sandy coastal plain, 

 intersecting the course of the southernmost rivers of 



Fig. 28. A view of "Chase's Prairie" in the more open eastern portion of the 

 Okefenokee Swamp, taken from an elevation of fifty feet up a pine tree on 

 one of the incipient islets. The water is of uniform depth (about four or 

 five feet). This is one of the most remarkable landscapes in the world. 



Photo by Mr. Francis Harper. 



Georgia that drain into the Atlantic. Behind the bar- 

 rier the waters coming from the northward are retained 

 upon a low, nearly level plain, that is thinly overspread 

 with sand and underlaid with clay. They cover an 

 area some forty miles in diameter, hardly anywhere too 

 deep for growth of vascular plants. There is little dis- 

 coverable current except in the nascent channels of the 



