Freed from the fear of France, the people of the Thirteen Colonies, so long hemmed in between the Atlantic Ocean and the appalachian range, found full expression for their love of local self-government when England asserted her imperial supremacy.
"Canada under British Rule 1760-1900"
John G. Bourinot
As Riggs, Hale, and Dorsey have demonstrated, the original home of the Siouan stock lay on the eastern slope of the appalachian mountains, stretching down over the Piedmont and Coastplain provinces to the shores of the Atlantic between the Potomac and the Savannah.
"The Siouan Indians"
W. J. McGee
The coal supply, according to the report of the National Conservation Commission, amounts to 611,748,000,000 tons and the riches in iron in the southern appalachian district are equally enormous.
"History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)"
E. Benjamin Andrews