. The continent we live on. Physical geography; Natural history. The Northeast Coastal Fringe Province extends south from Montauk Point on Long Island to the Tar River valley and Cape Hatteras at the eastern point of Pamlico Sound and has northern outliers in Cape Cod and its associated islands. It is 600 miles long from northeast to southwest as the crow flies, 850 miles in length along its landward or western curve, and about 100 miles wide at its southern extremity. Its coast line is enormously indented, measuring on ordinary land maps at least 5000 miles and on ocean coastal charts over 14
. The continent we live on. Physical geography; Natural history. The Northeast Coastal Fringe Province extends south from Montauk Point on Long Island to the Tar River valley and Cape Hatteras at the eastern point of Pamlico Sound and has northern outliers in Cape Cod and its associated islands. It is 600 miles long from northeast to southwest as the crow flies, 850 miles in length along its landward or western curve, and about 100 miles wide at its southern extremity. Its coast line is enormously indented, measuring on ordinary land maps at least 5000 miles and on ocean coastal charts over 14,000 (estimated). Its high-tide level edge varies all the time, as sandspits shift and storms move mud banks. Its total area is about 45,000 square miles, but almost a third of this is covered by waters either fresh, brackish, or salt. It is North America's most indented stretch of coast, surpassing in this respect even the coasts of British Columbia and the Alaskan Panhandle. This province is almost wholly enclosed by the province here called Appalachia. On its southern border it meets the Great Southern Pine Belt and this, in fact, at only one point about midway between the headwaters of the Tar River and the city of Raleigh, North Carolina. A subsidiary, triangular slip of coastal territory, covered with pine barrens, muddy estuaries, and sand dunes, extends south from the Tar River to about Cape Romain. This is not a part of the Northeast Coastal Fringe from an over-all ecological point of view, but it is a physical extension of it. The province as a whole is really an extension to the far northeast of the Parklands Belt. Thus its tree growth is in the form of an isolated fades, and only shrubs make a closed canopy. Its height-growth can be increased by added rainfall but its over-all fades cannot be changed to a closed canopy. The province may be divided into seven major parts, namely: (1) Cape Cod, with Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard islands; (2) Long Island; (3) the sou
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