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in which the writer proposes to apply the term, be as truly an 

 "open valley" as the flat-bottomed one described above. 



Fig. I. — Part of the Charleston (W.Va.) special topographic sheet showing 

 typical "'open" valleys. Contour interval 20 feet. 



2. The second type, or intrenched meander valley, is finely illus- 

 trated by that of the Kentucky River and its tributary the Dix, 



