Georgia, historical and industrial . apples, plums, cherriesand other fi-uits, with all kinds of berries, abound. Its melons are with-out a superior. Among them the Augusta melon, so-called from its chiefshipping point, takes high rank. All along the lines of railway fromthe northeast section down through Middle and Southern Georgia areextensive tracts devoted to grape culture. SOILS OF SOUTHEKN GEOEGIA. The central cotton region of the State includes the southern part ofMiddle Georgia, and large areas of Southern Georgia. It embraces threedistinct belts having well marked differences. The fir
Georgia, historical and industrial . apples, plums, cherriesand other fi-uits, with all kinds of berries, abound. Its melons are with-out a superior. Among them the Augusta melon, so-called from its chiefshipping point, takes high rank. All along the lines of railway fromthe northeast section down through Middle and Southern Georgia areextensive tracts devoted to grape culture. SOILS OF SOUTHEKN GEOEGIA. The central cotton region of the State includes the southern part ofMiddle Georgia, and large areas of Southern Georgia. It embraces threedistinct belts having well marked differences. The first of these is thesand and pine hills belt. Its northern limit is a line iimning fromnortheast to southwest as follows: from a few miles north of Augiista andThomson ranging a few miles south of Warrenton and Sparta to Mil-ledgeville, Macon, Knoxville, Geneva and Columbus. At this point themetamorphic rocks are found outcropping in the beds of the streams,while the sand hills extend northward a short distance along the uplands. coc:. GEORGIA: HISTORICAL AXD IXDUSTRIAL. 159 The southern limit of the sand and pine hills belt is clearly marked bythe somewhat abrupt appearance of the red clay hills along its width of this belt varies greatly, being rather narrow in the part ofit lying between the Ogeechee and Flint rivers, and gi-eatest withintwenty-five or thirty miles of the Savannah on the east, and the Chatta-hoochee on the west. Its southern limit on the Chattahoochee is nearthe mouth of Upatoi creek. In Taylor and Marion coimties it widens totwenty miles or more. The area embraced in the sand hills is 2,950square miles, the surface of the country being high and rolling, especiallyalong the northern limit, where the altitude is from 500 to 600 feetabove the sea, and from 100 to 150 feet above the adjacent metamor-phic region. In some localities, as between the Flint and Ocmulgeerivers, the lower part of the belt is a broad plateau gradually decliningsouthward. In th
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