This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...rising in it sooner or later break through its mountain rims and flow off into the rugged region beyond. Close to the rim of Coal Measures, on each side of the valley, there is a ridge containing red iron ore which rises to the proportions almost of a mountain, first on one side and then on the other of the valley, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...rising in it sooner or later break through its mountain rims and flow off into the rugged region beyond. Close to the rim of Coal Measures, on each side of the valley, there is a ridge containing red iron ore which rises to the proportions almost of a mountain, first on one side and then on the other of the valley, being rarely of equal height on opposite sides. Between these ridges and the rim intervenes a narrow valley with very fair soils. Between the two red-ore ridges lies the main body of the valley, which is, in its entire length, divided by one (sometimes two) flint ridges, as they are called, made up mostly of angular fragments of chert, the remnants of the impure siliceous limestone which forms the basis of the valley. In places the flint ridge attains very considerable height, and is usually covered with a growth of post, black-jack, and other upland oaks. The hollows between the ridges are of various qualities--sometimes flat and glady, overgrown with cedars, and not in cultivation because of the proximity of the limestone to the surface; sometimes gently undulating, and covered with a yellow or mulatto soil, which produces well all the common crops. These latter are the typical valley lands. Along the slopes of the ridges, and occasionally making up nearly the entire valley, are somewhat broken lands with gray soil and buff subsoil, filled with angular fragments of flint or chert. These varieties all depend upon the varying quality of the siliceous maguesian limestone which usually underlies the central parts of the valley. In addition to the above, there is in places a cold yellowish flatwoods soil, which, because of defective drainage and other physical properties, is seldom in cultivation. Between old Jonesboro' and the railroad station and ...
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