CUMBERLAND—BELL AND HARLAN COUNTIES. 13. 
the order in which they are met with. This is very necessary, 
especially in going up a steep mountain side, as it marks the 
height above drainage at which different timbers grow. 
In starting up Brush Mountain, the timbers remained sub- 
stantially the same for a barometric height of four hundred: 
and sixty feet. They are the magnolias, chestnut, hemlock 
(for the first fifty feet only), black gum, white oak, white. 
maple, beech, tulip tree, black hickory, grey birch, black. 
oak, pin oak, red oak, white hickory, sycamore (along Mid- 
dle Branch), black walnut (in small quantities), white walnut,. 
holly, black locust, red elm, shag hickory, and red maple (very- 
large). The formation is conglomerate. Ata height of four 
hundred and sixty feet chestnut oak is first seen. There are 
also black ash, red oak, witch hazel, and scattering pines. 
Height in | 
TIMBERS. barometric REMARKS, 
‘ feet. 
Pines, chestnut, chestnut oak, The absence of all the other timbers here- 
black gum, and rock maple. 720 is due not so much to height as to vicin- 
ity of a slide, which had precipitated the- 
crest of the mountain down to nearly: 
this height. 
Pines (?. mztts and P. vigida). . 965 Here we come to a bluff that has fallen. 
from the top of the mountain, and hence 
the absence of all timber except dwarf 
pines. This throw lasts for a height of 
three hundred feet. 
Black locust, chestnut, chestnut At this height the fall from the mountain 
oak, black birch, magnolia cu- top is crossed, and we again find the tim- 
cumber, pin oak, Lzvodendron, bers that normally belong to the moun- 
SWeeG Pepper, etC. 2s s+ so < 1300 tain side. All of these timbers are very 
heavy. 
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Chestnut oak almost entirely. . 16co Here we meet with another slide from the 
mountain top, which normally belongs 
just below the one at a height of 965 
feet. Very evidently that was originally 
the mountain crest, and fell first. This 
underlay it, and fell at a later date. Ge- 
ology shows plainly that both have fallen; 
but their relative positions originally TP 
argue from the botany alone. 
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