BRECKINRIDGE, OHIO, AND HANCOCK COUNTIES. [5 
This table is not absolutely perfect, for no such tables could 
be. For instance, black walnut should appear in it, as a small 
amount of old forest walnut is found on the waters of Beech 
Fork of Clover Creek. But if I had introduced a section from 
that locality, walnut would have had a prominence which it 
cannot claim in Western Kentucky. For the same reason I 
‘did not introduce a section from any prominent creek bottom, 
where there would probably be 100 beech trees per acre, and 
no other timber at all. However, the table is as accurate as 
it is possible to get it, and fairly represents the timber of all 
the counties under consideration. 
Now let us go over the tables and take the young forest 
timber only. In the same way we shall find its composition to 
be: 
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The difference between the two tables, showing the differ- 
-ence between the present and the coming forests, is remarka- 
ble. White oak has fallen from 4o per cent. of the old growth 
‘to a little over 9 per cent. of the young; while black oak and 
pin oak have risen from almost nothing in the old to 36 per 
cent. in the new forest. In other words, these worthless tim- 
bers are fast supplanting the white oak in Kentucky. . 
To these tables I shall now add a diagram showing the 
result of my observations in regard to the effect that height 
above drainage has upon the growth of timbers. While there 
are, of course, exceptions to this arrangement, still it is the 
most general expression of the distribution of timber, with 
reference to drainage, that can be given. The hills are so 
low in Western Kentucky that the points of the compass pro- 
-duce no appreciable effect on the timber: 
