O. M. Lieber on the changes of the Coast of S. Carolina, 357 
ever, becomes apparent, and we are then taught that these rivers 
did at one time drain large portions of the back country, the 
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trees and logs from the interior. e have ample and historical 
to determine the changes in elevation which take place on our 
Sea-board. he a 
In fig. 2 I have given an ideal section, which might represent 
a Section across Cooper river. In this figure, a}, represents the 
2, 
8 Marsh growth. 
Live-oak stumps. Dead trees. "Live vegetation. 
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a. 
beneath the former, for I have enjoyed no aaa of study- 
, beneath the sand, or the joint 
boundary of the older sand bed h, and of the marl beds e, be- 
neath d. Undoubtedly pettin4 i in Ee aiamieon the 
comm, t b ich appear in high bluffs on t 
on, and the eocene beds whi fed saree Rive 
have here represented. This has however little to do with the 
question which we now approach. : agape 
It has been said that a gradu ression and submersion is 
manifest on our coast. is I have endeavored to exhibit in 
