A hand book of Virginia . lions of feet of lumber are cut and marketedannually. Millions are still standing, awaiting the stroke of thewoodmans axe. This is the greatest trucking section in the world. Upon herfields may be seen corn, wheat, alfalfa, clover, grass of splendidquality. With more than three thousand square miles of salt-waterbottom, of which four thousand acres are set aside for oysterplanting purposes and some 200,000 as a natural reserve, we canfairly claim this to be the greatest oyster section in the world. The Chesapeake Bay and her many estuaries, which bearannually upon her
A hand book of Virginia . lions of feet of lumber are cut and marketedannually. Millions are still standing, awaiting the stroke of thewoodmans axe. This is the greatest trucking section in the world. Upon herfields may be seen corn, wheat, alfalfa, clover, grass of splendidquality. With more than three thousand square miles of salt-waterbottom, of which four thousand acres are set aside for oysterplanting purposes and some 200,000 as a natural reserve, we canfairly claim this to be the greatest oyster section in the world. The Chesapeake Bay and her many estuaries, which bearannually upon her beautiful waters $125,000, of foreigncommerce, produces annually about $12,000, of oysters,crabs and fish, in the gathering of which about $4,000, areinvested. The county of Accomac alone produces 75 per cent,of the soft shell crabs consumed in the United States. Middle Virginia This section is a great, moderately undulated plain, from 25 to100 mles wide, rising to the northwest from an elevation of 150. 31 feet above tide at the rocky rim of its eastern margin, to from300 to 500 along its northwestern. The principal streams, as arule, cross it at right angles; so it is a succession of ridges andvalleys running southeast and northwest, the valleys often narrowand deep,.but the ridges generally not very prominent. To manyportions of the middle country the mountain ranges to the westof the deepest blue, form an agreeable and distant boundarj^ tothe otherwise sober landscape. There are a few prominenceslike Willis, Slate River and White Oak mountains farther east,only prominent because in a champaign country. The middle country extends westward from the head of thetide to the foot of the low, broken ranges that, under the namesof Kittoctin, Bull Run, Yew, Clarks, Southwest, Carters, Green,Findlays, Buffalo, Chandlers, Smiths, etc., mountains and hills,extend across the State southwest from the Potomac, near thenorthern corner of Fairfax, to the North Carolina li
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