. History of Franklin County. CHAPTER DESCRIPTION. The Great Eastern Valley—The Path of a Probable Gulf Stream—TheMountain Ranges and their Appendages—Systems of Drainage—Geo-logical AND MlNERALOGICAL ASPECTS—CHARACTER OF SOIL—VEGETATION— Climate. rf ^HE beautiful valley, of which Franklin County forms but a small part,JL sweeps along the entire eastern coast of the United States, extending,under different names, from the southern extremity of Vermont across theHudson at Newburgh, the Delaware at Easton, the Susquehanna at

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. History of Franklin County. CHAPTER DESCRIPTION. The Great Eastern Valley—The Path of a Probable Gulf Stream—TheMountain Ranges and their Appendages—Systems of Drainage—Geo-logical AND MlNERALOGICAL ASPECTS—CHARACTER OF SOIL—VEGETATION— Climate. rf ^HE beautiful valley, of which Franklin County forms but a small part,JL sweeps along the entire eastern coast of the United States, extending,under different names, from the southern extremity of Vermont across theHudson at Newburgh, the Delaware at Easton, the Susquehanna at Harris-burg, the Potomac at Harpers Ferry, the James at Lynchburg, the Tennes-see at Chattanooga, and losing itself in Alabama and the southwest. By someit is claimed to have been the path along which an ocean current, possibly thebeneficent Gulf Stream, whose influence changes the natural and social con-ditions of both American and European civilization, flowed long prior to thepresent order of things, in either the old or the new world. It i

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