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From one extreme to the other
The Jackson Purchase, or the Mississippi Embayment, is one of five geographical regions of Kentucky. It’s an alluvial plain at the western extreme of the state. Kentucky is said to look like a camel lying down, in which case the Jackson Purchase is its head. Andrew Jackson bought it from the Chickasaws in 1818, hence the name. The Eastern Coal Fields form the camel’s tail. The region is part of the Cumberland Plateau, which is to say it looks like mountains but is actually an eroded plain of sedimentary rock. It will be a plain, indeed, when the bulldozers finish.
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