3. COOSA VALLEY REGION. 



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Evergreens seem to have made up about 40% of the 

 original forests. 



Population, etc. — Leaving out of consideration Jeffer- 

 son County, which contains the largest city in the state, 

 Birmingham, which draws its trade from hundreds of 

 miles in every direction, and does not depend on the 

 Coosa valley alone for its wealth, the density of popula- 

 tion in this region was about 54 to the square mile in 

 1910. Nearly three-fourths of the inhabitants are white. 



