Field Notebook: Arizona, Texas. 1923, 1924
Page 137
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Houston March 30 Sunday Left at 9.25 A.M. for Orleans. All day lam ping on the flat Coastal Plain of Texas and Louisiana. Andree is the land above 30 feet above the sea and and other lies between 10 and 30 feet. Drumps and cagons are common with Cypresses around only Lam ping areas. About 8. P.M. near in New Orleans. And at 8.45 lam off for the North on the Louisville Mobile R.R. by way of Mobile, Ala. and Montgomery Ala. A fine sunny day. En route Home March 31 Monday Left off at Montgomery at 6.20 A.M. We are in a red clay country and it gets colder as one go north. At Centum we are in the Pre-Cambrian schists. To the north and south of Atlanta the country is very red and clay gilded since the first are cut off.