CUMBERLAND—BELL AND HARLAN COUNTIES. Ig 
Height in 
TIMBERS. barometric REMARKS. 
feet. 
Pine (?. metis,) chestnutand chest- This is the top of the spur. Timber is all 
nut oak (both dwarf), dogwood, small—pine predominates. 
sourwood, and American laurel 500 
I now give a section across Pine Mountain proper. ‘It is 
triple-crested at this point (two miles below Mount Pleasant) ; 
that is, it is composed of three mountains, as it were, mashed 
in together, with their tops all distinct. The southern expos- 
ure is a very long and gentle slope, so that almost half a mile 
is sometimes gone over in a single hundred barometric feet. 
Height in 
TIMBERS. barometric REMARKS. 
feet. 
White oak, black oak, chestnut, Along the base of Pine Mountain here the 
maple, Lzriodendron, hickories, timbers are very good—often, indeed, 
ieee base. | quite heavy. 
Chestnut, chestnut oak, white oak The chestnut here is very large, while the 
(in small quantities), pin oak, white oak is small and has almost disap- 
black oak, pine(P. mzzézs), etc. 200 peared. 
Very little change of timber from the level 
above, except that white oak has wholly 
340 disappeared on the first spur or crest of 
the mountain. 
Pine (P. mts), chestnut, chestnut 
oak, black oak, and other tim- 
Bersa@bout as last. . ... 
American laurel, chestnut oak, chestnut and black oak growing scarce 
chestnut, black oak, etc... . 430 and other timbers coming in. Under- 
growth very heavy—pin oak, hickory, 
black oak, pine, etc. 
Mountain chestnut oak, scrub ; Here there is quite a change in the timbers, 
Mountain chestnut oak, American Here we reach the top of the first crest.. 
laurel, black gum, pine, chest- The timber is almost wholly chestnut 
DS CCE Se 550 oak. 
White oak, chestnut, black oak, This is a divide between two crests, is lower 
0 a a cr a 520 down barometrically than the last station, 
and gives very heavy white oak and chest- 
nut timbers. 
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