CHAPTER III 
THROUGH THE RIVER COUNTRY OF GEORGIA 
EPTEMBER 23. Am now fairly out of 
S the mountains. Thus far the climate has 
not changed in any marked degree, the 
decrease in latitude being balanced by the in- 
crease in altitude. These mountains are high- 
ways on which northern plants may extend 
their colonies southward. The plants of the 
North and of the South have many minor 
places of meeting along the way I have trav- 
eled; but it is here on the southern slope of 
the Alleghanies that the greatest number of 
hardy, enterprising representatives of the two 
climates are assembled. 
Passed the comfortable, finely shaded little 
town of Gainesville. The Chattahoochee River 
is richly embanked with massive, bossy, dark 
green water oaks, and wreathed with a dense 
growth of muscadine grapevines, whose ornate 
foliage, so well adapted to bank embroidery, 
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