Excerpt from The Geology and Coal Resources of Buchanan County, Virginia The surface of the entire county is rugged and has many of the features of mountains. Flat lands even a few acres in extent are rare, and vallev slopes, though not precipitous. Are very steep. The region has been thor oughly dissected by streams, so that the principal water courses are onlv a few miles apart and are separated by ridges that rise 500 to feet or more above them. The valleys are deep, narrow, and V-shaped. And even the largest of them have only very narrow at bottom lands. See Pl. I.) Many of the valleys are winding, so that water in the streams travels long distances between points not far apart. The ridges are steep-sided, winding, and have manv short side spurs jutting out from them. They are sufficiently at-topped to present a nearly even sky-line, and the heights of neighboring ridges are approximately the same in moAbout the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

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