OF THE TRADEWATER REGION. 2F 
fully ten miles from Fredonia. There are local spots of valu- 
able timbers, but they are in a hilly, out-of-the-way part of the 
country; and are not available. The Donaldson creek region 
cannot be said to be convenient of access, but probably before 
many years the branches that form its head waters will be pen- 
etrated for the old forest walnut that is still scattered along 
them. These walnut trees vary from twenty to forty inches in 
diameter—one I noted measuring five feet in diameter, with a 
straight trunk of sixty feet. But they are largely cut away, 
even now, to supply local demand. The white oak and less 
valuable timbers need scarcely be taken into consideration in 
this locality, as no exigency of the near future is likely to 
compel a resort to resources so remote from means of .trans- 
portation. It is enough to say, that along all the streams and 
branches which go to make up the head waters of Tradewater 
river white oak, bartram oak, liriodendron (yellow poplar), 
white and black ash, shag and pig hickory, with more or less 
white hickory, black walnut, red and white elm, and sweet 
gum, are found, most of them in great abundance and of the 
finest kind in size and quality. The hills are covered with 
post oak, black oak, Spanish oak, and the usual hill timbers. 
After turning down Tradewater river from Dalton (errone- 
ously marked on the preliminary map ‘‘Chalk Level’’), not 
a great deal need be said in a cursory view of the timbers. 
The sectional tables, which commence on page 23, will have 
to be relied upon largely for an accurate knowledge of the 
nature and distribution of the timbers. The rate at which the 
forests are now cut away could not be exhibited accurately in 
tables, but that has already been noticed; so I shall do no 
more here than to note briefly special points of interest con- 
nected with the timbers on the Tradewater river between 
Dalton and the Ohio. 
On Lick creek, a few miles above Dalton, among the finest 
sweet gums found in Kentucky are noted, varying from two 
and one half feet to four feet in diameter; shag hickory from 
three feet to three and one half feet in diameter, white oak 
three and one half feet, and liriodendron four feet, are also 
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