Excerpt from The Alabama Manual and Statistical Register for 1875: Showing the Geographical Position, Commercial Advantages, Agricultural and Manufactural Resources, and National Importance of the State of Alabama, a Statistical Guide for the Immigrant and Handbook for the Citizen General Description of the State - Population of Cities and Towns Her Geographical Situation Variety of Soil and Climate - Rela tion to the Gulf of Mexico - The Outlet of the Great River Basins. 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.