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Alabama lies between 84 degrees of 51 ' and 88 degrees length of the west of the 28 ' 03"y 30 degrees the latitude of the north from 13 ' and the 35"; it is around intermediary between New York and Mexico, close to fine the Southerner of the zone of the north of the temperature which puts Alabama in a zone semitropical. The station of growth in Alabama of north is measured A before valley and it is 198 days. The head of the valley has the doubtful distinction to place the freshest point in the state. The annual average temperature in Alabama of north east 60 degrees of F. The annual average of precipitation for the complete state is 53 inches, section of the North-East 55 inches. The mountain of the observation post has its own winds of the air conditioning. The winds are generally the friends of humanity but give return in enemies when they sweep through Alabama in the form of turned over or hurricanes. Mentone was not known to have had many storms violent one. The mountain of the observation post where Mentone is located in the southernmost end of the Appalachian Mountains is a long mountain, narrows. Three states have a portion of the observation post: Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. The end of north, in Tennessee, is a long plate, narrows. The Indians were named "by mountain of Chatanuga," the Indian significance "rock of the word of Muskhogean which came at the right moment." The part broader than the observation post is the nine miles between Cloudland, Georgia, and Mentone, Alabama. In one day enough of light which it supervises towards the west of before Mentone, one sees hills of weak lie, contorneadas lissement, and a broad valley downwards. The curtains of the color of the trees are wide of chartreuse with with what is green jade. Two thirds of Alabama is in forests. It is below the valley the wills which starts in north around Trenton, from Georgia, and extends to the south for approximately seventy miles. To include/understand and appreciate the beauty and the good life of current Mentone, Alabama, one must submerge in the mysterious geological past. For the period cambrienne of it it was geological paleozoica or made approximately 600 million years, there were tropical portions extended from a cover of the sea of this sector according to what was shown by marine life collected before the songs are high. Hundreds of million years thereafter for the period known as the carboniferous period, named for "fossile fuels," oil, the coal, and natural gas developed like result the reptiles, the sharks and what is amphibious, and the animals great navy which falls and which dies in the marshes, just like the trees the scale and of many the ferns of the seed. In this time the sedimentary rocks were placed, for example the sandy stone, the calcareous stone, the slate, coal, and the conglomerates under water. There is few evidence of the action or volcanic flow of the lava. In the end of it was paleozoica, the mountain which folded in North America of the east produced the heights which constitute in the Appalachian Mountains of today. One of the five types of rocks in mountain of the observation post is black schist of Davonian. For the period they devonian, more than 400 million years there is, amphibians, amonitas, and of fish were abundant. On the black schist devonian is a large block of the chert of Payne of the fortress. It is called chert of Strong Payne because it is in good manners in our close city. On that one it is an enormous block of slate of Floyd, named for the county of Floyd, Georgia. It is then the calcareous stone of Bangor. The named rocks three: The black schist, chert of Payne of the fortress, and the calcareous stone devonian of Bangor is called subcarboniferous measurement, or it mississippian. Million years passed between the formation of these three layers. Then came a heavy layer from the sandy stone of the observation post. Sandy stone of Walden, after the song of Walden, capsule rocks. The two last layers are called Coal or measurement of Pennsylvanian. Little river with its spring nourished the river which started in the principal river, Georgia, flow peaceful with Mentone, Alabama, and is the only river known in this hemisphere to run along the cover of a mountain. Curve along the high plateau of the narrow mountain thousand coward of the observation post of the eighty-three, while going down on a chasm one-hundred from the feet to form the falls of DeSoto, in the park of state of DeSoto, approximately three miles of central Mentone. There are approximately fifteen falls in the park, but the falls of DeSoto is most famous. The falls of DeSoto in the beginning were called indian Falls as recorded by the Fédéral troops in September of 1863, and changed thereafter in DeSoto it falls by Sarah FORCES ÓRear. The river crosses little river ravine of a throat of the roca-cliffed, and combines with the river of Coosa, one of the three principal systems of the river of the state. The mountain is considered by spaleologists (Latin word "spelaeum," cave of the root) to be one of the richest areas for the caves in the world. Where the traslapo of the bark of the ground occurred during time the mountains were raised, the formed damages. In the level of the ground of the mountain are varies hundreds of the feet of calcareous stone. While water filtered in the damages, the calcareous stone was gradually dissolved by the carbonic acid found in rainwater weak solutions. The enormous caves and caves were cut towards outside like water made its manner through the substrate of lime, by leaving only the racks of the rock which were resistant to erosion. There are miles of alleys of the spindle, caves, caves, swimming pools of water, cascades, and currents underground which function the complete length of the mountain of the observation post. Under before Mentone in valley the head is a large cave which was contemporainement provided with the emergency rations by civil defense for the use in the event of a catastrophe. The Appalachian Mountains Southerners have a forest of null and void sheets rich am varied that. Between the trees found to be indigenous with this sector are ashes, the birches, the cherries, the dogwoods, the elms, the gums, the hawthorns, the nuts hard, the hollies, Iindens, the lobsters, the magniolias, the maples, the mulberries, the oaks, the pines, the plum trees, Los Alamos, the nuts, the redbuds, the sourwood, the sasafrases, and the willows. The shrubs found indigenous around Mentone to include azaleas, the rhododendrons, the bilberries, the spines, the grapes, the madreselvas, the bilberries, which are hydrangeas, ivies, the bay-tree, the pinks, the sumacs, and the viburnums. In the club of the garden of the rhododendron of Mentone in May 1984, the people of Margaret were the speaker of the host, has beyond the president of the senior Chapter de Blanche of the company of Alabama Wildflower. It indicated that there are some 3.000 species of wildflowers in south-east. Approximately 1.000 of those are in Alabama of the North-East. In this sector one finds the saffron natural, the shrub of the shad, the beauty of the spring, distorts it anémona, the arbutus which is involved, which is back of I repair, the flower of foam, the star which it throws, the lirio trout, the violet dog cut out, the bloodroot, the apple of May, trilliums, ferns, azul-campanas of Virginia, euonymous, pamplina and the yellow jasmine. The savage geranio are also here, the diaphragm, gato-in-$$$-PÚLPITO, the madreselva of what is trompeta, the woodbines (that óRear of ruby said is yellow in before being given lime and pricks far further), the pipes the Indies, the pipsissewa, the bay-tree of the mountain, which is azaleas, the rhododendron, the poplar of the tulip, which is hydrangeas sheet of the oak, the lirio of the spider, and the sailplane of Madam. A plant carniverous found in little river in the vicinity of the park of DeSoto is the plant of flask. When initially Europeans arrived here, the Indians were of product and with vehicles and fruits such as of nuts of nut lasts, the nuts of Pecan, the sweet chestnuts, the nuts, the cutters, the bilberries, bramble the blackberries, fishings, the cherries, the muscadines, the grapes, the potatoes, the marrows, the peas, the broad beans, the marrow, the tomatos, will okra it, and the corn. In Mentone, the sector of Alabama, fishing is a popular sport in the groupings, the creek, and the rivers. Some of fresh water fish taken are wild bluegill and shellcracker, under large articulated, types of fish, and perca. The chub of river cat is in the places were stored that. The fauna found in the vicinity of Mentone includes stags, ruails, turkey, rabbit, the ardilla, the fox, the raccoon, the oposum, and the dove of luto. In 1982, when Juan Paul the Verdon was twelve years of old man, it took articulated four-and-a-half a large book drops in a grouping of road 117 of Alabama in the characteristic had previously by Jimmy Jones. The grandmother Juan Paul, Mrs R C Gilbreath, made go up for her wall. The manpower of Sammy, chief of the fire of Mentone, before it is withdrawn from the service of the forest during the last Seventies, had a call of a woman at the head of the valley; it was frantic: "téngale always killed a bear?" it asked Sammy. "right passed through my court." "not," Sammy answered, "I then to only test." When it arrived at the head of the valley, the children in a black church were wild with enthusiasm because the black bear put its legs for in top within the framework of the window. Sammy saw its tracks, but did not see the bear. As a Paul 1977 Leldon Johnson of the way of the handle turned over to house of work on the road 157 approximately six or seven miles of Mentone. It thought that it saw a black object which could be a drum 50-gallon; it moved. What it follows it was a friend of the mountain of the sand which the bear saw. It was a black bear because it went extinguished in its four legs. While turning over to the scene, the two men they said that it had disappeared in wood. In T 1981 F (Mack) Blalock as of the way of the handle, one afternoon approximately 2 of the afternoon supervised through its field and thought as its neighbor had acquired a black becerro, until it began towards him; the bear exploited the trees extinguished in wood encircles. Mack Blalock threw to a red fox by its barn a pair there are years and A sold somebody who wished the skin. What is maroon of Stanley of Him explored an old cave called the cave of the Council in the falls approximately 4:30 of DeSoto of the afternoon of October the 9 of 1984. supervised for in top and saw a splendid red fox in cliffs. Escurr in the direction of little river. In the vicinity of the lake Lahusage, the Collins tailor and his spouse built a house. The night of Sunday, of October the 14 of 1984, heard a bobcat that they shouted like a woman in work. A bobcat was seen at the summer of 1984 by Betty and Scutter Smiths when were in its manner with Cloudland, Georgia. The cat doubled through the road; the hour was daylight. While turning over to house after darkness, Smiths it saw the same cross of the cat in front of them in the road. Scutter Smiths is a professional amaestrador of dogs. It is in wood much time. A pair of miles of its house in road 106 of Alabama, in the sector which the government claims after exploitation of an open-cast mine, it considered a large bobcat; it was early the morning. In convention the Forties of the Chasseur fox of triple state it met in the hotel within the competences of mineral, and after all the night of hunting, the dogs yapping, they would lunch in early daylight in the station which hangs. The reason there is little of fox drives out now in the observation post is because the dogs soil a stag and they follow it for the miles, sometimes in the wood of the north of Georgia, with the hunter unable to recover its dogs. There is fox drives out real in the mountain of sand. J R Bath, wire of Bath of the oldest grandpa, points out fires in wood while drives out with its family and friends like a child, a oposum of the `, a mouffette, and coons `. the J R was a young fishing of the boy in the site of the lake Lahusage the day that the prisoner broke being given the heavy rains; the water of the lake has to the bottom summer dramatically. From May the 10 of 1975, an account of the bird was made in the north of the sector of Mentone and the south of road 117 of Alabama to the line of state of Georgia, and the birds more frequently possible recorded to him were of luto the dove, rapid of chimney, drink of barn, jay blue, common crow, chickadee of Carolina, titmouse crested, wren of Carolina, Robin, tordo of wood, a species of bird rojo-red-eyed, curruca of the meadow, meadowlark of the east, it to mir of red wings, grackle common, tanager of the summer, cardinal, empavesado of the indigo Although the ground and the rough cutting of the ground in Mentone were not particularly good for the great sectors to cultivate or of picking up cattle, it is a good sector récréationnel. The early Indians fixed this part of the ground extinguished for hunting. The sector is still today a limit of happy hunting for the residents throughout all the year and for the vacationers.
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