TOPOGRAPHY, 7 
connected forest map of the territory studied. Furthermore, the 
company owns many small, scattered plats of land, which are so 
isolated from the main bodies of its holdings as to make the surveying 
of them very expensive and impracticable. It was therefore deemed 
advisable to select as a basis for the working plan in each locality 
those townships or portions of townships in which the Kaul holdings 
predominate, and to survey and study them completely, regardless of 
ownership. This plan was carried out on both tracts. 
THE COOSA COUNTY TRACT. 
SITUATION. 
The total area in Coosa County, surveyed in accordance with the 
field notes of the Public Land Survey, was 35,984 acres. It comprises 
wholly or in part sections 6, 7,8, and 18 of township 24 north, range 18 
east; sections 7 to 36, inclusive, of township 24 north, range 17 east, 
and sections 1 to 24, inclusive, of township 23 north, range 17 east. 
These townships, which comprise the Coosa County tract, are 
located in what Dr. Charles Mohr designates as the region of meta- 
morphie hills.“ It is the extreme southern extension of the eastern- 
most ranges of the Appalachian system, and occupies all of the 
country between the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers. 
TOPOGRAPHY. 
The Coosa County tract has an area of 30,000 acres. The topo- 
graphical features vary considerably, and are in some respects rather 
unusual. The general direction of the drainage is westward into the 
Coosa River, which, at the nearest point, is about 6 miles west of the 
west boundary of the tract. 
The elevation above sea level varies from 500 feet at the lowest 
points on Peckerwood, Paint, and Clay creeks, to 1,150 feet at the 
summit of Weogufka Mountain. The general character of the country 
may be described as rolling. The ridges, as a rule, are low, broad, — 
and rounded. In some places, however, they develop into steep- 
sided, well-defined hills, rising several hundred feet above the general 
level of the surrounding country. 
The divide between the waters of Finnegotchkee and Clay creeks 
on the south and those of Peckerwood and Paint creeks on the north 
has an elevation of from 750 to 800 feet above the sea on the northern 
end, but it is so little raised above the general elevation of the sur- 
rounding country and slopes off so gradually on either side as to be 
scarcely noticeable as a main divide. ‘Toward the south, however, 
it increases in altitude and sharpness of slope, with the result that it 
«Dr. Charles Mohr: Plant Life of Alabama (Alabama Geological Survey). 
