14 REPORT ON 
THE TIMBERS OF THE NORTH 
TIMBERS. 
‘Pin oak, black oak, pig hickory, 
Liriodendron, chestnut, and 
chestnut oak 
Height in 
barometric 
feet. 
REMARKS, 
The mountain top here is level and broad, 
showing the slide of the rock cliffs that 
once capped it. So the timber here is 
not that which geologically belongs to 
the top of the mountain. 
1940 
An irregular spur of the Black Mountain, almost at right- 
angles to the last sec 
‘the following timbers: 
tion, gives, on its southern exposure, 
TIMBERS. 
“Sweet gum, beech, red maple, 
shag hickory, black ae 
white oak (very massive), hol- 
ly, Lzitodendron, black locust, 
magnolia umbrella, black gum, 
white walnut, grey birch, black 
Height in 
barometric 
feet. 
REMARKS. 
The character of the undergrowth here is 
somewhat different. It consists of aza- 
leas, mountain oak, red oak, chestnut, 
dogwood, and some white oak, hickory, 
etc. 
oak, and chestnut . . base. 
-Liriodendron, white oak, shag hick- It will be noticed that sweet gum, the mag- 
ory, water beech, black oak, red nolias, and holly disappear during the 
maple, black hickory, white ma- first hundred feet. 
ple, chestnut, june-berry. . 100 
“White oak, water beech, chest- The shag bark hickory here disappears. 
nut, witch hazel, Lzzzodendron, 
june-berry, black locust, black 
oak, pig hickory, rock maple, 
post oak, sourwood, dogwood, 
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Mountain chestnut oak, black oak, | Here the undergrowth becomes very heavy, 
white and rock maple, Lérioden- black oak and red oak predominating. 
dron, white oak, pig pagal Mountain chestnut oak makes its first 
dogwood, etcy. 300 appearance also. 
Rhododendron maximum, moun- A cliff of horizontal sandstone here changes 
tain chestnut oak (in great the character of the timber almost com- 
quantities), pine (s¢zs), black pletely. 
hickory, American laurel, sour- 
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