Georgia, historical and industrial . egrowth is poplar, cypress, and titi, with some pine and fever tree orGeorgia bark. The vast pine forests that cover this pine woods regionare a source of great wealth to the State, and the trade in lumber hasbuilt up thriving tovnas. Wherever the timber lands are cleared, theland is being occupied and put under cultivation. The marls that aboundin many parts of this section, when mixed with the muck from theswamps, afford a cheap fertilizer, which increases greatly the productive-ness of the soil. This region opens a fine opportunity to the enterprise oftr
Georgia, historical and industrial . egrowth is poplar, cypress, and titi, with some pine and fever tree orGeorgia bark. The vast pine forests that cover this pine woods regionare a source of great wealth to the State, and the trade in lumber hasbuilt up thriving tovnas. Wherever the timber lands are cleared, theland is being occupied and put under cultivation. The marls that aboundin many parts of this section, when mixed with the muck from theswamps, afford a cheap fertilizer, which increases greatly the productive-ness of the soil. This region opens a fine opportunity to the enterprise oftruck-farming. Those desiring to engage in such business had bettercome while lands can be purchased at low rates. The pine and palmetto fiats lie in the southeastern corner of the State,around Okefinokee Swamp, and embrace mainly the counties of Charl-ton, Echols and Clinch, and large parts of Ware, Pierce and belt is considerably higher than that of the coast region, extendingacross other counties to the Savannah GEORGIA: HISTORICAL AND INDUSTRIAL. 165 The country is level and open with many swamps, having a densegi-OT^Iih of titi, tupelo and Llack-gnms, sweet and loblolly bays and cas-sino, a short-leaf pine, all interlocked with bamboo briers, forming adense thicket. The chief timber growth is the long-leaf pine and cypress,and on the open lands a dense mass of low saw-palmetto, gallben-ybushes and some wire-gTass. This region is about 125 feet above thesea, the descent on the east being very rapid from Okefinokee Swamp toTradei-s Hill, at the head of tide-water and Saint Marys river. Fromthence is a level second terrace to the edge of the savanna covered withdeep white sand. The cre-eh bottom and hummock. lands, though not very wide, havea dark loam soil from eight to twelve inches deep with a clayey subsoil,beneath which lies a blue clay stratum. The growth of these hum-mock lands is in the main oaks, black-gum, tupelo-gum, cypress, maple,etc. The coast
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