"Appalachian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the white South was not universally successful, however. Here and there were Republican islands in a Democratic or Conservative sea. The largest and most important exception was the Appalachian South, divided among eight different States. It is a large region, to this day thinly populated and lacking in means of communication with the outside world. Though it has some bustling cities, thriving towns, and prosperous communities, ...
— The New South - A Chronicle Of Social And Industrial Evolution • Holland Thompson
... of mountains in north-eastern New York, U.S.A., in Clinton, Essex, Franklin and Hamilton counties, often included by geographers in the Appalachian system, but pertaining geologically to the Laurentian highlands of Canada. They are bordered on the E. by Lake Champlain, which separates them from tho Green Mountains. Unlike the Appalachians, the Adirondacks do not form a connected range, ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia |
