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Excerpt from Torreya, Vol. 17
This paper deals with a fairly homogeneous area within the limits Of New York City, in which there is still enough natural vegetation to be well worth describing before it is all gone. It is that part of Kings and Queens Counties (or the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens) south of the terminal moraine, which is a very conspicuous topographic feature in the western third of Long Island. The eastern boundary Of the area under consider ation is a political one, but it happens to mark almost exactly the western limit Of the Hempstead Plains, whose vegetation is very different from that here described, and the eastern edge Of the extensive salt marshes around Jamaica Bay. The total area studied is about 100 square miles, including the marshes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
