Ordination" as defined by Goodall is "an arrangement of units in a uni or multidimensional order." The authors have attempted to apply this method of classification to soil profiles.Data concerning three groups of soil profiles were treated separately in order to show the degrees of similar ity and dissimilarity between the profiles. Soils of the Miami family and catena were examined in this manner twice, once on the basis of laboratory data and a second
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