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Show I 113 E~I'IGRANT'S GUIDE. gers, real and imaginary, of a summer residence in a large cornmerci.ai city, on the banks of the Mississippi. In the interior of H1e country, the lands walered by the Pascagoula and tributary streams, have great resemblance to those of Amite and Pearl rivers. A general character pervades all that part of the state of 1\iississi p-pi lyin~ east ·of Wilkinson county. The three kinds of land noticed in the review of Amite prevails, and with about the same proportion. COUNTIES; THEIR NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL PRODUCTIONS; TOWNS. The rillge of hills that has been before describeJ, diviJes the state of Mississippi into two tJnequal sections. T he N. \V. section comprises all the counties of \Varren. Claiborne, J effc~ rson, Adarn sl }"'ranklin, and the greate~t part of Wilkinson, anJ one half of Amite. In the S. E. section are included one half of Amite, anJ all Pike, Lawrence, l\'larion, Wayne, Gn~ene, I-bncock, and Jackson counties. These sedion" are of ve ry un~;qu a l extent; the northwest conta ining 3,'240, whilst the southeast covers an area of 9,840 squ are miles. The two divisions have very distinctive features of soil, climate, and natural productions. \Ve will review eacb, and the contrast will appear apparent and striking. It would be useless to give in uetail the particular features of the countries included in the northwest section. A steaJy uniformity prevails in all the region from the Yazoo river to Loftus' heights, and even to the 31° N. lat. 'I' he ~ester~ b_or~er .of t~,e .northwes~er.n section is formed. by the banks o( the 1\1I s~ Js s ippl. l hi$ borcler JS mtercepted by the h11ly l;wd reaching the river, as at vValnut hill s, Grand gulf, Natchez, \.Vhite cliff3, and Loftus~ heights. There are many other places where the bluffs approach to within a very short distance of the Mississippi, as at tbe Petite gulf, Villa Gayosa, and Pine ridge. The most extensive Mississippi bottoms in this tract is below the mouth of Yazoo, at Palmyra ; between Bayou Pierre anJ Cole's creek ; between V ilia G ayo~a and Natchez, and between the White cliffs and L~lftus, heights. These bottoms are in few places five miles wide, and would not avcr:1ge.more th an two a~d a half; which, allowing thei r length 200, wouiJ gtve 500 squ(lre rmles as the entire superficies in the tract in question upon which the Mississippi waters flow. Some ex~ cn l m(ly be added _for the ri ~er a.nd cree.k b0ttoms T\'hich protrude the mun ~l a teJ surface .mto th ~ mtenor. S1x hundred square miles, we are mduccd to be lu~ve, wdl be an ample estimate for all the surface bct:vee_n t?e Yazoo and tlH! s?uth bo_un da.ry of the :Mis3issippi state, wh1 c.h IS hable to an Hnnn al 1rnmers10n fr o n~ the :Mississippi, or by other streams, rendered stagnant by the swell of that crreat river. The hilly or broken cnunt{y rist->s like a buttress from the ~orerroina plain; prod.ucin~ a country of \~a ving surface, though no part of its ~xtent is. constderauly el eva~e d. J'here are but few places in the United States where the ~otl afford~ more J ~v ers ity than does the ~ountry wa.· ~ered by the Yazoo, Bi~ · bLack, Homochitto, Buffalo, and the nume .. • tl\HGRAN't'S GUIIJE. tous str.eams in their vici~ity. . No pa~t of the earth Is, perhaps, more congemal to the productiOn of 1ts part1cular staple, than is this region to t~e growth of. cotto? ; that elegant and truly useful vegetable f}ounshes so Juxun~utly m the wanu anti waving soil, that constitutes most ot the superficies of the N. W. section. Afte~ leaving th~. level inundated bottoms .of the Mississippi, and -sceudmg the bluff~ , and for ten or fifteen rmles into the interior the s~aface of .the country is gen~rally cornposed of rich loam and th{ckJy ttmered w1th ' Quercus tinctoria, Qu(•rcus alba, Quercus falcata, Quercus nigra, Quercus o. btusiloba ' Quercus phillos, Quercus rubra, Liriodendron tulipifera, Laurel magnolia, Black oak, • White oak, .. Spanish oak, Pot oak, rare Willow oak, ;arc. Red oak, Poplar, J uglans a mara, B · · J uglans mJrris ticreformis I tternut hickory' J ' Nutmeg hickory, uglans nigra, Black walnut ~ uglans squamosa, Shell bark hidkory uglans Jaciniosa, Bh ck hickory, . Laurus sassafras, Sassafras FI . iqui·d ambar styraciflua ' Sw eet gtHn, ~axu!us aquatica, Water ash, Dwsptros vir!!iniana p F , ..... ' ersimon, ngus sylvestris, B GJeditsia triacanthos eech, Acer rubrum, ' I-Ioney locust, Celtis crasslfolia Red flowerina map( · C ' Hackberry, 0 · ' arp~nus ostrya, Iron wood Carpmus americana, Hornbeam' Ca~tanea pumila, · C ' C hinca pin, erasus virrriniana ' Populus angulata,' Vild cherry, Platanus occidentaiis Cotton wood, rare, rril ia pubescens, , Sycamore, Ul mu s ru b ra, }L{ in1d en1, or lime tree, Ulmus americana, Me< .·e ~' Ulmus aJata, ~cliagmous elm, WmO'ed elm • Tll e pa·n us rigida, at the pine r"dO' o . h • . Natchez, approaches within tl· ~I ,::,e eJg t mJJes to tbe north of P•.· Th Hee mr es of the bank f th M" . . e existence of the ine at h . , . so e JSSISslp - vegetation; its growth is ~onfioed t tt place Is a smgular anomaly ia iqua.re. miles. There is nothinO' in o an area not more than twenty ~o dJstmgu ish it from the commo~ blu~e o~et~Jer~~s~e~t o.f the country ~~ exc~Jient,, and the pine is admixed with oth:r t ISSJss!PP~· .The Janel tile sutl. 'I o the east of this •tract fi~ rees md!catJ.ve of ferheforQ the pine timber Llecom ,b teden or twenty mJle3 mtervene e~ a un ant. The aUuviaJ banks of ' |
