ALABAMA. A river formed by the junction of the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers, about 10 miles north of Montgomery, Ala. (Map: Alabama, 11 4). Its genera] course is westward to Selma, thence south-westward to about 50 miles north of Mobile, where it meets the Tombigbee, and with that stream forms the Mobile River. It is 320 miles long, and navigable from its mouth to Montgomery, nearly its entire length.
ALABAMA, 31':l-bit'nni, known as the "COT TON STATE." One of the Gulf States of the American Union, situated between lat. 30° 10' and 35° N., long. 84° 53' and 88° 30' W. It is bounded on the north by Tennessee, on the east by Georgia, on the south by Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, on the west by Mississippi; length, about 336 miles from north to south; average width, 175 miles; total area, 52,250 square miles, of which 710 square miles is water (Map: United States. J 4). Alabama, by the census of 1900, ranks as the eighteenth State in the Union in population, the twenty-seventh in size, and ninth in order of admission.
ToroonAnnr. The southern extremity of the Appalachian mountain system extends into the State from northern Georgia in a series of lo'.v
parallel ranges. Of these, Raccoon and Lookout mountains are the most prominent, but do not attain any great elevation. They are flat-topped ridges, about 1600 feet in elevation at the Geor gia line, gradually lowering to the westward, the Raccoon Mountains extending in a very low range (called Sand Mountains) well across the State, while the Lookout Mountains terminate abruptly after reaching a distance of about 60 miles within the State. To the southeast of these ranges lies the comparatively level Pied mont region. To the southwest, at the very ter minus of the mountain system, is the low-lying Cumberland plateau—the coal-fields of Alabama. On the north of all these are the lower lands of the Tennessee valley. The whole region just de scribed includes the northeast two-fifths of the State. The remainder, the southwest three-fifths of the State, constitutes the coastal plain, which slopes gradually from an elevation of about 600 feet to sea level.