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THE LONG-LEAF PINE REGION : extensive district occupied by ; promi- 

 nent forest tree — Long-leaf Pine ; concomitant trees ; frequency, 

 shape and size of these trees mark variations of soil, 348 ; general 

 character of the bottoms ; herbaceous vegetation and undergrowth of 

 the region, 349, 350; soils of the region westward of E. Marion ; on 

 the head waters of the W. Amite ; analyses of Pine Upland Soil and 

 Subsoil, 350-1 ; deductiens from these analyses, 352 ; soils E. of 

 Ilolmesville ; culture in the Long-leaf Pine Region proper confined to 

 bottoms and hommocks ; vegetation of these ; lands of Simpson 

 county, 353 ; lands on the Bowie ; between Westville and Monticello, 

 354 ; Pearl River flat below Monticello ; between Silver and Green's 

 Creek ; between Columbia and Monticello, below Columbia ; Burnett's 

 Bluff, 355 ; first bottom of Pearl River ; Okatoma bottom ; ridges 

 dividing Okatoma and Okahay ; analysis of Pine Hill Soil, 356 ; an- 

 alysis of Pine Hill Under- Subsoil ; deductions from these analyses, 

 357 ; Okahay bottoms ; Jones and Perry, S. Wayne ; hommock of 

 the Chickasawhay; 358 ; same continued ; improvement of the Long- 

 leaf Pine Region, require nutritive manures primarily ; Pine Straw 

 most available, 35i) ; analysis of Pine Straw ; practical inferences ; 

 mode of applying Pine Straw, 360 ; value of this substance as a 

 manure ; pasturage in the Pine Woods, 361 ; ruin of this pasture 

 impending ; waters of this region ; localities of fine springs, 362 ; 

 mineral waters ; analyses of mineral waters, 363 ; additional locali- 

 ties and analyses of mineral waters, 364- 



THE SEA-COAST COUNTIES: change of vegetation as the coast is ap- 

 proached ; plants, 365 ; bottom soils of the Pascagoula ; defects, 

 growth and improvement, 366 ; soil of ridge between the Pascagoula 

 and Black Creeks ; shallow ponds ; their peculiar vegetation 367 ; 

 soils of Black Creek Bottom, Red Creek Bottom and the dividing 

 ridge between them, 368 ; soils and vegetation of the Pascagoula 

 bottom, 369 ; of Big Bluff Creek ; the Pine Meadows, 370-1 ; 

 analysis of Pine Meadow soil ; practical inferences therefrom, 372 ; 

 Shell Hommocks ; only two species of shells in them, how formed ; 

 vegetation, 373 ; the marshes, mode of occurrence ; difference between 

 the marshes of the smaller and larger streams ; two kinds, viz : the 

 Cutting Rush, and Round Rush Marshes, 374 ; change from one to 

 the other ; how effected ; composition and reclamation of marsh soils, 



375 ; analysis of soil from a Cutting Rush Marsh ; of Marsh Muck, 



376 ; analysis of soil from the marsh of Pearl River ; discussion of 

 the analysis, 377 ; other localities of similar soil; clay and lime needed, 

 378 ; sources from which they may be obtained ; change of soil in 

 approaching Ocean Springs, 379 ; improvement of the Sand Hom- 

 mocks ; origin of the Shell Hommock Soil, 380 ; means of improving 

 the Sand Hommocks, 381 ; outcrops of clay ; subterranean Cypress 

 forest, 382 ; Sea-island Cotton Plantations ; soils on the road from 

 Pearlington, N., 383-4 ; waters of the Coast ; frequently mineral, 385 ; 

 usually saline chalybeates ; coast islands ; growth and soils, 386 ; 

 tides of the coast ; importance of the G. and Ship Island R. R. to the 

 interior, 387. 



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