. Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior . direction, vaguely applied without definite reference to naturalsubdivisions; second, names based on specific natural features andapplied to local districts, colloquially called countries. The directional names in general use in Texas are as follows: EastTexas, Southwest Texas, Central Texas, Northwest Texas, North Texas,and West Texas. The bounds of the areas which these terms areintended to designate have never been defined, and it is doubtfulwhether they are well formulated in the public mind. They wer
. Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior . direction, vaguely applied without definite reference to naturalsubdivisions; second, names based on specific natural features andapplied to local districts, colloquially called countries. The directional names in general use in Texas are as follows: EastTexas, Southwest Texas, Central Texas, Northwest Texas, North Texas,and West Texas. The bounds of the areas which these terms areintended to designate have never been defined, and it is doubtfulwhether they are well formulated in the public mind. They were notoriginally used with reference to the geographic center of the State,but were and still are employed with reference to the early Americancenters of population in the extreme eastern part. Thus all the areasto which these names are applied lie east of the central meridian of theState. Southwest Texas, for instance, according to this older nomenclature, embraces the country between the Balcones scarp line, the RioGrande, and the coast. This region, relative to the geographic center. HILL.] NATURAL PROVINCES OF THE STATE. 27 of the State, is really Southern Texas, as it will be called in this Texas was the region traversed by the Houston and TexasCentral Railway, and included a country (the east half of the East-Cen-tral Province of nomenclature) more than 100 miles east of the trueCentral Province as defined in this paper. North Texas was the tier ofblack-land counties adjacent to Red River, and included only the easternthird of the northern border. Northwest Texas was almost the exactgeographic center of the State. The term West Texas was applied tothe region immediately beyond the westwardly migrating line offrontier settlement. No set of directional terms coincides exactly with the natural subdi-visions of the State; nevertheless, such terms are convenient and oftenunavoidable in description. The use made of them in this report,however, is quite different f
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