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Title: A hand book of Virginia
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Virginia. Dept. of Agriculture and Immigration Koiner, George W. (George Wellington), 1852-1939
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Publisher: Richmond, Everett Waddey Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ng) and by a line of 25 miles acrossthe Eastern Shore. East and southeast is bordered by the Atlanticfor 125 miles. The boundary lines of the State measure about1,400 miles. On the northwest they are mostly mountain ranges;on the northeast and east, water. The longest line in the State, from the Atlantic southwest toKentucky, is 476 miles; the longest from north to south is 192miles. The longest line in England (northeast to southwest) is372 miles, and the longest line from north to south is 360 miles. No State in the Union offers a more attractive inducementand extends a more inviting hand than Virginia. In climate,diversity of soils, fruits, forests, water supply and mineral deposits,and variety of landscapes, included in mountain and valley, sheoffers advantages that are unsurpassed. She lies between theextreme heat and cold, and removed alike from the sultry, pro-tracted summers of the more southern States and the severewinters and devastating cyclones and storms of the Northwest.
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27 Natural Divisions There are five great natural divisions of the territory of Virginia.Belts of country extending across the State from northeast tosouthwest, as a general direction, nearly parallel to each other, andcorresponding to the trend of the Atlantic coast on the east andof the ranges of the Appalachian system of mountains on thenorthwest. These grand divisions are, taken in the order of succession fromthe ocean northwest across the State, 1st, the Tidewater Country,or Tidewater; 2nd, the Middle Country, or Middle Virginia; 3rd,the Piedmont Country, or Piedmont; 4th, the Great Valley ofVirginia, or the Valley; 5th, the Appalachian Country, or South-west Virginia. Tidewater Virginia Tidewater Virginia, comprising that section of the State lyingmainly east of a line drawn north and south through her capitalcity, Richmond, is esteemed by its residents—and by many ofits non-residents also—both figuratively and in fact, as the garden-spot, not only of Virginia, but of the en

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