18 REPORT ON THE TIMBERS OF THE NORTH 
Height in 
TIMBERS. barometric REMARKS, 
feet. 
White oak, blue ash, black oak, White oak is here reduced in size and im- 
linden, chestnut, pig hickory, portance. Linden is more plenty, and 
sourwood, chestnut oak, water the first chestnut oak appears. 
birch, maple, etc... . . + « 250 
Chestnut oak, june-berry, black | Here white oak almost wholly disappears, 
hickory, sourwood, white ma- as well as ash and linden. 
ple, and black oak ..... 300 | 
Chestnut, chestnut oak, black oak, Here the timber is almost wholly chestnut 
sourwood, dogwood, black gum, oak, and evidently belongs higher up: 
Seb Srey Sod 1k od ae 400 than that found upon the top of the 
bench given below. 
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White oak, white and pig hickory, The timber on top of this bench of the 
black locust, black walnut, red spur is fully equal to that at its base. I 
maple, black oak, Lzriodendron, had not time to cross completely over 
ClO ke el acryee eet not 500 the spur. 
A section made on a spur of Pine Mountain, two miles 
below Mount Pleasant, gives the timbers mentioned below: 
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Height in 
TIMBERS. barometric REMARKS. 
feet. 
White oak, beech, black oak, Zz7- The timber on Pine Mountain, at its most 
todendron, white sugar maple, favorable points, is scrubby and ordi- 
red oak, sourwood, chestnut, nary. It is so even here at its base. 
black gum, grey birch, etc. . 100 
Chestnut oak, chestnut, black oak, Here the mountain side is a perfect talus 
Liriodendron, dogwood, black mass of fallen stones and débris. Tim- 
gum, sourwood, and grey birch 250 ber more or less dwarf. White oak and 
beech have disappeared. 
Rhododendron (maximum), chest- Here there is a vast cliff of sandstone, dip- 
nut (dwarf), sourwood, moun- ping 22%° west southwest, from which 
tain oak (dwarf), etc... .. 350 the talus above was thrown. Timbers 
all dwarf. The cliff is about eighty feet 
high. Zzrzodendron disappeared at the 
cliff mentioned above. 
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