Agricultural, geological, and descriptive sketches of lower North Carolina, and the similar adjacent lands
By: by Edmund Ruffin
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Agriculture; Agricultural geography; Drainage; Geology; Marshes; Swamps; Pine; Description and travel; Geography
Other titles: Sketches of lower North Carolina.; The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Notes: Title from electronic title page (viewed August 12, 2002)

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Transcribed from: Agricultural, geological, and descriptive sketches of lower North Carolina, and the similar adjacent lands / by Edmund Ruffin, of Virginia. Raleigh : Printed at the Institution for the Deaf & Dumb & the Blind, 1861. 296 p. ; 23 cm. Parrish & Willingham, 6140. Cover title: Sketches of lower North Carolina.

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Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Agricultural geology, or Remarks on the drift-formed and the denuded regions of the Atlantic slope; title: pt. 2. Agricultural features of lower North Carolina, and the adjoining territory; title: Postscript: Lands on the Chowan and Roanoke; title: Addendum: A new plan for ploughing flat land in aid of drainage; title: pt. 3. Observations on the features and changes of the ocean sand-reef, and the enclosed navigable waters of North Carolina; title: pt. 4. The origin and manner of geological formation of the great swamps of the Atlantic coast; title: pt. 5. Notes of the natural features, and agricultural character and improvements of parts of the Great Swamps; title: pt. 6. Notes on the pine trees of lower North Carolina and Virginia; title: pt. 7. Notice of the recent improvement of Edgecombe County, North Carolina, and especially by means of compost manuring.