CHAPTER III 



THROUGH THE RIVER COUNTRY OF GEORGIA 



SEPTEMBER 23. Am now fairly out of 

 the mountains. Thus far the climate has 

 not changed in any marked degree, the 

 decrease in latitude being balanced by the in- 

 crease in altitude. These mountains are high- 

 ways on which northern plants may extend 

 their colonies southward. The plants of the 

 North and of the South have many minor 

 places of meeting along the way I have trav- 

 eled; but it is here on the southern slope of 

 the Alleghanies that the greatest number of 

 hardy, enterprising representatives of the two 

 climates are assembled. 



Passed the comfortable, finely shaded little 

 town of Gainesville. The Chattahoochee River 

 is richly embanked with massive, bossy, dark 

 green water oaks, and wreathed with a dense 

 growth of muscadine grapevines, whose ornate 

 foliage, so well adapted to bank embroidery, 

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