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of the flatwoods is 1O to 25 feet above the Indian River, and there are many little ravine-like valleys carved by short streams, as if the area had been uplifted in comparatively recent times. Near the lake region the topography is often a little undulating, and the transition from one region to the other gradual, though there are also places where it is abrupt. Shallow depressions abound, ranging















 Fig. 26. Prairie bordering Lake Tohopekaliga about 3V miles east of Kissinmee, with a few cattle grazing. Abrupt transition to flatwoods with long-leaf pine and saw-palmetto in middle distance. Feb. iS, 19o9.

















 Fig. 27. Asphalt road through flatwoods in Osceola County, about ten miles southeast of St. Cloud (the nearest town) and a mile from the nearest house. April 27, 1920.