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government map indicated. Something didn’t quite fit.
I asked a friend who is a geologist to come over and look down the hole. There was no doubt about the quality of the soil — good red loam, the sacred soil of Virginia, deep enough for a tilled crop.
My geologist friend explained how soil maps were only rough guides, and often the soil type was not exactly what the map indicated. It was not unusual for a few acres of clay-loam to occur inside an area marked off as Louisburg soil. So far as he could tell, it was a Culpeper loam, known officially as CuC2.
When I asked him how deep the water was below the bottom of the hole, he said the first water would be the Blue Ridge aquifer, 100 feet at least, buried under a dome of solid granite.
As I filled in the hole, I decided
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