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A LONG the eastern coast of North America, commencing at Long Island and passing southward through Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, there lies a broad tract of country known as the Atlantic Coastal Plain. This plain, which also extends round the northern part of the Gulf of Mexico, where it is distinguished as the Gulf Coastal Plain, is a region of low elevation, with a relatively gentle seaward slope. Part of it passes through and embraces 35,000 square miles of the southern half of the State of Georgia, and this constitutes the purview of an extremely interesting and informative report issued by the United States Geological Survey, from which the following particulars are gleaned.
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C., B. Southern Georgia and its Hydrography 1 . Nature 97, 452 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097452a0
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