North of the ridge the land falls to the marshy and low-lying shore of the Thames estuary, and to the south there is an area of clays and sands forming a rolling wooded region known as The Weald.
As the western terminus of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad, the city served as the commercial centre for the Piedmont (rolling upland region) and for entry into the nearby Appalachian Mountains.
The plantation system spread from the coastal lowlands into the rolling inland region in the early 19th century, and the new state became part of the Cotton Belt that stretched across the South.
Selkirkshire, also called Selkirk, historic county in southeastern Scotland, occupying a rolling upland region dissected by the valleys of the Ettrick and Yarrow waters (rivers), which merge in the east with the River Tweed.
The seemingly endless landscape of white fences, paddocks, tobacco fields, and pastures in the rolling Bluegrass region around Lexington suggests an unhurried and genteel way of life that is more reminiscent of Kentucky's ties with the antebellum South than it is reflective of the state's position in the fast-paced economy of an industrialized country.
Food and wine festivals also heap their bounty on countless tables in the Maremma, the astoundingly beautiful stretch of land that extends along the coast, straddling the rolling green regions of Tuscany and Lazio.
There was a sense of mounting excitement and anticipation of the massive cycling circus rolling into the region.
Despite the blue sky and green grass and rolling countryside, the region seems desolate, perhaps because that is all there is: blue sky and green grass.
Couple that with a political climate as contentious as anyone can remember and a wave of economic insecurity rolling across the region, and you have a situation where saying "thank you, ma'am" isn't good enough anymore.
Couple that with a political climate as contentious as anyone can remember and a wave of economic insecurity rolling across the region, and you've got a situation where saying "thank you, ma'am" isn't good enough anymore.
