jhe REPORT ON THE TIMBERS OF THE NORTH 
and the yellow pine (/vzus mts), are very abundant in parts. 
of the mountains, particularly Pine Mountain. They are too 
well known to need especial mention, except to say that not a 
pine is to be found in those counties of Western Kentucky, 
on which my former report was made, so far as I could dis- 
cover. I know of no especial reason for their total absence 
from that part of Kentucky. Certainly the want of mountains. 
in Western Kentucky is not a sufficient explanation; for pine 
woods are often low and flat, though I do not know of any in 
Kentucky that are so. Other timbers found in Eastern Ken- 
tucky, that do not grow in such parts of Western Kentucky 
as I have studied, are the magnolias (Magnolia acuminata, M. 
umbrella, and M. frasert), hemlock, Rhododendron (maximum), 
and American laurel (Kadlmza latifolia). 
I shall now proceed to give in detail the most important of 
the sections made, in the order in which they were made. 
Between ten miles above Pineville and Browning creek the 
exposure of the mountain facing the river shows Lzrzoden- 
dron, hemlock, beeches, chestnut, red oak (called often water 
oak by the people), the three magnolias given above, Rhodo- 
dendron (maximum), American laurel, red and white maple, 
trident red maple, white oak, pines (wz¢zs and 7zgzda), the 
various hickories (mostly shell-bark), dogwood, sourwood, and 
Stuartia (Stwartia virginica). 
A section was made up Browning creek to Brush Mountain, 
and across Brush Mountain to Cumberland Mountain. Up 
Browning creek, to the last crossing before starting up Brush 
Mountain, the timbers noted were white oak (which predom- 
inates), pin oak, pig hickory, chestnut oak, mulberry, red elm, 
buckeye, papaw, sycamore, shag hickory, white walnut (in: 
considerable quantities), black walnut (small quantity), white 
ash (very fine and large), grey birch, linden (77/2a Americana 
and 7. heterophylla alba), white elm, black cherry (only one 
or two), winged elm, white hickory, the magnolias, hemlock, 
sweet gum, and black sumach. I should say here that, in 
making sections through the mountains, I give the timbers, 
not in the order in which they probably predominate, but in 
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