. The Southern States. ic or Recent forma-tion. It includes the coastal plain risingfrom the sea level to an average eleva-tion of 250 feet at the western limit. Inthis region are found all the na\igablewaters of the State, including sounds,bays, inlets and rivers. The central dis-trict of twenty-six counties belongsmainly to the Laurentian and Huronianformations, with belts of Triassic forma-tion, and includes the rolling portionsbetween the coastal plain region and thefoot-hills of the mountains. In the west-ern limit of the district the elevationvaries from 800 feet to 1000 feet. Thewestern
. The Southern States. ic or Recent forma-tion. It includes the coastal plain risingfrom the sea level to an average eleva-tion of 250 feet at the western limit. Inthis region are found all the na\igablewaters of the State, including sounds,bays, inlets and rivers. The central dis-trict of twenty-six counties belongsmainly to the Laurentian and Huronianformations, with belts of Triassic forma-tion, and includes the rolling portionsbetween the coastal plain region and thefoot-hills of the mountains. In the west-ern limit of the district the elevationvaries from 800 feet to 1000 feet. Thewestern district with the remaining thirty-four counties includes the foot-hills andthe mountains, and belongs practicallyto the same geological formation, ex-cluding the Triassic, as the central dis-trict. It is, however, composed morelargely of such dense conipact rocks ofthese early eras as still retain in a meas-ure the distinctive form produced in theimmense mountain upheaval of erasgone by. The elevation of parts of the. i3« THE CLIMATE OE NORTH CAROLINA. district varies from 800 to 1000 feet onthe east to nearly 7000 feet in the centre,at the summit of the Blue Ridge, gradu-ally decreasing through the surroundingtable-land, averaging 4000 feet, to thewest, where the Smoky Range is reachedon the extreme western limits, and withelevations almost as high. The mount-ains are nearly all densely wooded tothe \^ery peaks, and in scenery theyrival that of Switzerland. Round Knob,on the Western North Carolina Rail-road, near the top of the Blue Ridge, isa picturesque example. Numerous cross .chains are found connecting the mainchains through valleys 1500 to 2000 feetelevation and upward. The climatic conditions of these dis-tricts will be considered separately andthe State as a whole. In the compila-tion of these figures, records from 128stations, in seventy counties, were this number forty are in the eastern,thirty-six in the central and forty-sevenare in western districts. Th
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