OF ARKANSAS. 243 
MONROE COUNTY. 
West of White river, this county is formed of high level prairie lands, 
similar in character to the lands of Prairie county, just described, except 
a short and narrow strip bordering on White river, in the vicinity of Aber- 
deen, which is broken by hills, about one hundred feet in height, composed 
of yellow clay and orange sand. East of White river, in this county, the 
land is generally low, and much cut up by lakes and-sloughs, which, in 
time of high freshets, overflow large tracts of country. The remaining 
portion of this part of the county is composed of ridges that never over- 
flow, and is amongst the finest cotton land in the state, producing 1200 or 
1500 pounds to the acre. Soils characteristic of this land were collected 
from Alfred Mullen’s farm, in section 25, township 1 north, range 3 west. 
No. 2, soil fourteen years in cultivation, and now in cotton. The princi- 
pal growth of timber, in this section of the county, is large sweet-gum, 
elm, hickory, and dogwood. 
I did not see any solid rock formation in this county. 
