‘Chestnut (dwarf), pin oak, white 
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Height in 
TIMBERS. barometric REMARKS. 
feet. 
Red oak, buckeye, blue ash, white The ledge of rock above mentioned is 
hickory, Liriodendron, chestnut, crossed before reaching this height. 
black birch, shag hickory, pin The growth of white hickory so far 
BMCL Cer (eG. 2 58 ne Ae 1600 above drainage is noticeable. It can 
be met with only on the richest ground 
at this height. 
Here the top of the mountain is reached, 
oak (dwarf), black gum, Amer- as the timbers indicate. The fact that 
ican laurel, rock maple, sour- there is so little change of timbers, 
PNOMEC ECS he. fou ictal wife el. Ve 1790 where the differences of level are so 
great, shows that the underlying rocks 
are horizontal and hold the soil, so that 
it forms a rich loam from the bottom 
to the top of the mountain. 
Notice here that this is not the height of the mountain 
above the river below, but only its height above the point at 
which I started up it, which was some three hundred feet 
above the river level. 
In passing down the mountain by a different route, but 
few variations from the above tables were met with. The 
‘““sweet shrub’’ was one of these. The belt of walnut was 
found encircling the mountain at about the same height. as 
given above. 
The timbers on a spur of Black Mountain shooting off near 
the last section will suffice to give the differences between the 
timbers of the main range and one of its spurs: 
Height in 
TIMBERS. barometric REMARKS. 
feet. 
‘White oak, black oak, red maple, The exposure here is south, and white oak 
beech, buckeye, black hickory, is by far the predominant timber. It is 
black gum, linden, etc... .. base. not usual to see linden so low, and only 
one tree was found here. 
‘Buckeye, black walnut, white oak, White oak still predominates. A small 
Liriodendron, chestnut, pig hick- amount of black walnut, not more than 
ory, linden, and sugar maple . 120 twenty inches in diameter. Only one 
linden tree. 
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