map. What is said of the mountain gaps?

4. Where are the Catawba and Yadkin Rivers? What portion of the
State do they water? Point them out on the map.

5. Describe the rivers of the third system. Where do they empty?

6. What do our rivers afford? What is said of our water power?

7. What mention is made of the sounds? Describe the banks.
Point out on the map the sounds and the banks.

8. With what do the sounds and rivers abound? What important
branches of industry are mentioned?




CHAPTER III.

GEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS.

A knowledge of the geology of a State affords the key to its
soils; since the soils are formed by the disintegration of the
underlying rocks, more or less mixed with animal or vegetable
matter. The peculiar geological structure of the State furnishes
the material for every possible variety of soil. In fact, there
is no description or combination unrepresented. There are,
first, the black and deep peaty soils of Hyde county and the
great swamp tracts along the eastern border of the Tidewater