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SOIL SURVEY OF THE BRAZORIA AREA, TEXAS By FRANK BENNETT, Jr., and GROVE B. JONES. LOCATION AND BOUNDARIES OF THE AREA. The Brazoria area lies entirely within Brazoria County and covers 845 square miles, or 540,800 acres, comprising about three-fifths of the total area of the county. It is bounded on the north by Harris County, a part of its northeastern boundary is formed by Galveston +---__----..- . I . | . . _ F; -:^ _ i'jS^ ^ ^ 5 FIG. 9.-Sketch map showing areas surveyed in Texas. County, and a part of the western by Fort Bend County and the Brazos River. The soil map is platted on a base made by the party in the field, no satisfactory published map sufficiently accurate for the soil survey work being procurable at the time the party went out. The soil map is divided into two sheets. The upper, called the Alvin sheet, 349