Excerpt from Preparing for Change: Geography in the Albemarle Area The area has three slightly different topographic areas. The northwestern section, including most of Gates County, and the northeastern half of Chowan County consist of a gently rolling and well drained topography with ridges generally rising about 40 feet above the stream beds. The maximum relief is 72 feet. 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.