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level plain extends southwest along the western boundary of the 

 county. It has the same general trend as Little Pigeon Creek, 

 and will therefore be called Pigeon Plain, although this valley is 

 not now occupied by Little Pigeon Creek. 1 



Pigeon Plain is naturally divided into two portions by a ter- 

 race about fifteen feet high, which begins near the point where 

 Lake Plain joins it, and extends in a general northwesterly direc- 

 tion past Midway to Little Pigeon Creek (Fig. i). The plain 

 north of this line is about fifteen feet higher than the portion 

 south. The soil north is a reddish clay in part of the region 

 and a very black peaty soil in the other ; while the soil south 

 is entirely different, being the same as that which makes the 

 river bottoms and the River Plain, into which it merges at its 

 south end. Other differences between the northern and south- 

 ern parts of Pigeon Plain will be mentioned later. 



Where Pigeon Plain enters the northern part of the area 

 under consideration it is about two miles wide. It gradually 



J The separation of Pigeon Plain and the valley of Little Pigeon Creek is 

 not shown. 



