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PHYSICAL AND GEOLOGICAL DESCEIPTION. 



Classified Areas of the Townships in Acres. 



The accompanying Map of the county shows the several 

 varieties of land referred to in the table, and gives a clearer 

 idea of their distribution than any description in words 

 possibly can. 



:. § A MOST remarkable feature in the topography is the 

 large extent of salt-marsh. A strip of it extends the 

 whole length of the eastern side of the county, from Bees- 

 ley's Point to Cape May, being thirty miles long, and from 

 two, to three and a half miles wide. Marshes of a more 

 limited width are found along the Bay-shore for ten or 

 twelve miles up from the Cape ; and about the ipouths of 

 Goshen, Dennis, East and West Creeks there is another 

 very large body of marsh. It is somewhat triangular in 

 form, with a. base on the Bay of about five miles, and 

 its apex on Dennis Creek, four miles and a half from the 

 Bay. On Tuckahoe River, and on Great Cedar Swamp 

 Creek, there is another tract of marsh several miles in 

 extent. ' 



The cleared upland , is alinost entirely upon the two 

 main. roa,ds of the county, the sea-shore and the bay-side 

 roads; and the wood and bush-lands occupy its central 

 portions. Included in the woodlands are several large 



