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Planting Pine Seeds, San Gabriel National Forest, California. 



these may be named the Falls of Elk Creek, near Cranberry, N. C, the 

 Upper Falls of the Whitewater Eiver, the Lower Cullasaja Falls of 

 Macon County, N. C, and the Toccoa Falls of Habersham County, Ga. 

 Thus, with infinite variety of mountain and valley, forest and stream, 

 cascade and waterfall, beetling crag, bold precipice and dizzy gorge, 

 this entire region presents a scene of transcendent natural beauty and 

 sublimity. 



As a national park and recreation ground this area has no equal in 

 the United States. Unlike the splendid but remote Yosemite, it is 

 within twenty-four hours' ride of 60,000,000 people. With modern 

 transportation facilities the cities of the east — New York, Boston, 

 Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington; of the south — Charleston, At- 

 lanta, Xew Orleans, Nashville, Louisville; of the middle west — Cin- 

 cinnati, Cleveland, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City and Chicago — 

 are almost at its doors. 



