Studies in the Social Sciences Volume 4-5 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...for the purpose of cutting and removing timber. No action was taken by the state after the surveys of 1875 until 1894, when the law establishing the Geological Survey was amended so as to make it the duty of the State Geologist to survey swamp lands and prepare plans and estimates of the cost of draining them, but through lack of appropriations to carry on the work not very much was accomplished.22 For several years prior to 1911 there had been some agitation for drainage legislation in Georgia, but this movement was spasmodic and unproductive of results until that year, when a general drainage act was passed which will enable landowners to carry out large cooperative drainage projects.24 Because of the comparatively recent enactment of its drainage laws, Georgia, however, has done practically no work whatever in the direction of reclaiming the 2,700,000 acres of swamp land within its borders.25 11 The small islands dotting the swamp are generally surrounded by a floor of moss, which is usually firm enough to hold a person's weight, but it rises and falls for a distance of from ten to twenty feet, hence the name. (Report of Dr. Little of Georgia Geological Survey. Published in Handbook of Georgia by the Commissioner of Agriculture of Georgia, 1876.) "R. M. Harper, "Okefinokee Swamp." Popular Science Monthly, 74:596-614 (June, 1909). During the Civil War deserters from the Confederate Army lived for a considerable time on "Soldier Camp Island." Paul Fountain described Okefinokee in his Great Deserts and Forests of North America, but it is doubtful if he ever saw it himself. Ibid., 598. "Geological Institute of Georgia, Bulletin 25, 1911, pp. 14-19; R. T. Nesbitt, Georgia, Her Resources and Liabilities (published by the Georgia D...