BRECKINRIDGE, OHIO, AND HANCOCK COUNTIES. II 
are too well known to need mention. There are fine forests 
of them along the streams and in the damp woods toward the 
Ohio river, but little use is made of them except for local pur- 
poses. They are very rich in sap, however, and with the same 
industry the region might be made as historic as the sugar 
forests of New England. 
There is a very small amount of black birch in Western 
Kentucky, so far as I could discover. In my entire study I 
only saw one or two trees, on Panther Creek. It may be 
common in secluded and limited localities. Its timber is very 
valuable and is used in the manufacture of mahogany furni- 
ture. The beeches, which exist in almost endless quantities 
on all the streams of Western Kentucky, are coming largely 
into favor in the manufacture of benches, desks, etc. The 
wood is the hardest found in our forests. Beside the tim- 
bers mentioned here, which are the most valuable ones, many 
‘others, varying in usefulness, were noted, a complete list of 
which will be found at the end of the report. 
I give below, in table form, the observations made upon a 
belt of timber about five miles wide, stretching across all four 
of the counties—Grayson, Breckinridge, Hancock, and Ohio. 
The belt is as nearly representative as I could get it, so that 
the table of locations, given in the order of observation, with 
the per cents. of different timbers, etc., will well represent the 
timbers of all the counties. In location No. I, at both stations, 
the timber was mostly second growth, the o/d forest timber 
having been cut away. The small proportion of white oak 
among the second growth is conspicuous. 
LOCATION I—STATION (A). REMARKS. 
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