XX11 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



THE SOUTI1ERN RIVER COUNTIES : extent of territory; surface .con- 

 formation determined by deposits of calcareous silt known by the 

 name of the Bluff Formation ; the silt overlaid by from 3 to 10 feet of 

 brown loam ; depth of silt from 25 to 30 feet on an average, p. 313 ; 

 peculiarities of roads in this region, 314 ; hills and streams of the 

 formation, 315 ; soils of the uplands in this region reducible to two 

 classes, viz : those derived from the brown clayey loam, and those 

 derived from the light calcareous loam silt, 316; growth characteris- 

 tic of each ; analyses of upland soils, 317, 318 ; remarks upon these 

 analyses, 319 ; diagram illustrating denudation in the Bluff Formation. 

 320 ; subsoil more fertile than the fresh surface soil ; requires fallow- 

 ing and stimulating ; material for the latter to be found, in the calcareous 

 silt, close at hand and easily transported, 321 ; brown loam easily 

 distinguished from the silt ; subsoil and silt both lacking in vegetable 

 matter; great injury done by washing, 322 ; lands intervening be- 

 tween Cane Hills and Pine Hills ; soils of the Homochitto Hills, of 

 the Hamburg Hills ; the Cucumber tree the prominent botanical 

 feature of the latter, 323 ; limited district occupied by this tree ; 

 peculiar soils near Rocky Springs, lacking in clay and vegetable matter, 

 324 ; Grape Culture in the Cane Hills, 325 ; bottom soils of the 

 Southern River Counties ; vallies of the streams peculiar, growth, 326 ; 

 hommocks ; bottom lands between the hills and the Mississippi River ; 

 springs, wells and mineral waters. 327 ; calcareous and magnesian ; 

 cisterns generally resorted to, 328 ; E. of the Cane Hills the water 

 usually in greater quantity and of better quality ; notice of a remarka- 

 ble sprine, 320. 



THE CENTRAL PRAIRIE REGION : prairies not the prevalent feature of 

 the surface ; " Gypseous Prairies ", "Hog wallow Prairies", "Shell 

 Prairies " ; origin of these names, 330 ; the ridge lands of the region 

 bear the character of the Yellow Loam, or Long-leaf Pine Region ; 

 Warren and Yazoo, Hinds and Madison ; the Zeuglodon — desirable- 

 ness of securing an entire skeleton, 331 ; loam uplands of Madison 

 and N. Hinds the best in the State ; an improvident culture rapidly 

 destroying them ; analysis of Yellow Loam subsoil from Hinds coun- 

 ty ; remarkable results of deep plowing in' this soil, 332 ; marls 

 advantageous ; need of drainage ; corrective of tendency in this soil 

 to shrink and crack ; short-leaf pine ridges, 333 ; fertility of these 

 ridges ; prairies in Hinds county ; oysters and crystals of Gypsum 

 abundant on them ; "salty " spots in fields — their causes and remedy, 

 334 ; Pearl River Soils ; Rankin and Scott, 335 ; character and growth 

 of their soils ; Gypsum Prairies ; why so called, 336 ; analysis of 

 soil, and underclay of gypseous prairie, 337 ; means of improving 

 these soils ; patches of " black prairie soil " sometimes found in the 

 gypseous prairies ; do gypseous clay soils rust Cotton ?, 338 ; Rankin 

 N. of the Peelahatchie ; soils of S. Scott ; effect of the bluish or 

 yellowish matrix of the Zeuglodon bones upon crops, 339 ; soils of 

 Smith and Jasper ; oak lands between Leaf River and its western 

 confluents, 340 ; analysis of Leaf River Prairie Soil ; Hog Wallow 

 Prairies ; extent and character, 340-1 ; other characteristics of this 

 region ; analysis of Hog Wallow Prairie Soil, 342 ; deductions from 

 this analysis ; E. Jasper ; Paulding Ridge, 343 ; Clarke and Wayne ; 

 bottom soils ; Chickasawhay bottom ; peculiar growth ; prairies of the 

 Jackson Group, 344 ; continued, 345 ; waters of the Central Prairie 

 Region, poorly supplied ; generally mineral and too strong for daily 

 use, 346 ; wells in Jackson ; Mrs. Nichols', Capt. Mizell's, 346 ; 

 Mississippi Springs and Cooper's Wells, 347. 



