The industrial history of the United States (1910)
Coman, Katharine, 1857-1915 · New York : The Macmillan Company · leaf 45
The Land and the People 1 7 reached and cleared. The Piedmont plateau from Penn¬ sylvania to Georgia is rough hill country, heavily forested before the advent of the white man with pine, hemlock, and hard woods. The “ fall line ” that divides the coastal plain from the Piedmont indicates the drop… … hills to sea level and marks the head of navigable water. Settlers did not penetrate this “ back country ” till the supply of fertile lowlands was exhausted. Fiske, Holland. — Of the maritime countries of Europe, the The Dutch and Quaker Dutch were by no means the least enterprising, but their…
Industries -- United States -- History · United States -- Economic conditions
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