CUMBERLAND—BELL AND HARLAN COUNTIES. 15; 
Height in 
TIMBERS. barometric REMARKS. 
feet. 
Dwarf chestnut oak, dwarf pine, The sandstone cliff here still continues, 
dwarf and post oak, rock maple, but at a dip of 14°. It evidently be-. 
sourwood, and American laurel 400 longs to the mountain top, but has slid 
down, for the rocks of Black Mountain: 
are horizontal in their normal position. 
White oak, chestnut oak, chest- These timbers evidently belong to a posi-- 
nut, black gum, and pin oak tion geologically below the 400-foot 
are the old growths. . 560 level. 
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In passing up the Cumberland from White Rock toward 
Mount Pleasant, the timbers are mostly white oak, beech, 
chestnut, red oak, Spanish oak, maple, etc., except where a 
ridge of the mountain juts down to the river, when pin oak, 
pines, mountain chestnut oak, black oak, etc., are introduced. 
Shag and white hickories are plenty along the bases of the 
mountains, pig and black hickories higher up. Hemlock 
abounds all along the little streams, to a height cf fifty bar- 
ometric feet above drainage. 
After crossing over into Harlan county, I made a section to. 
the top of Black Mountain, up Gray’s branch, and came down 
a different way, so as to get two sections. The results are 
here given in detail: 
Height in 
TIMBERS. barometric REMARKS. 
feet. 
White oak, black oak, red oak, The walnut timber here is only young 
black gum, black walnut, ma- growth, confined to open spots. 
ples, beeches, etc. ..-. . . -| ‘base. 
Beech, sugar maple, white maple, The mere list of trees here gives no idea 
Liriodendron, red oak, linden, of the splendor of the forest. The L77- 
black gum, white oak, white odendroms are five to seven feet in diam- 
hickory, shag hickory, grey eter, with trunks sixty to eighty feet 
birch, and blue ash... .. 100 long. The white oak timber is also ex- 
tremely heavy, and the blue ash as fine 
as any I ever saw. 
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