OF THE TRADEWATER REGION. 23. 
black oak, or véce versa. The white oak is found only in little 
depressions along the road. After reaching the high hills and: 
deep hollows, upon nearing the Ohio river, the same change 
of timber with the height above drainage takes place, the 
only difference being that it takes a much greater change of 
level to produce a corresponding change in the timbers. 
TIMBER TABLES. 
The following tables are given consecutively in the order in 
which they were taken. The area represented by a table 
varies from twenty-five hundred square yards to five thousand: 
square yards, more or less. 
I call a tree decayed where large and prominent branches. 
are dead, or where the body of the tree is not sound, or where: 
it shows general evidences of unsoundness. 
Average Number de- 
Name. Number. diameter. | Number dead. cayed. 
WpeantuamnOadle sea. aos. celts 4 26 inches I I 
MeduGak. 0 8 is 4 aoe. o 4 rae eat fo) I 
IAGEIOAKS ours Sho; owls: ests 2 2 ORs oO I 
Swamp white oak... ..... 2 sits) UE o fo) 
SITHCCHASIN tc, Sys) svn ves 7 20-28* ‘ I I 
Broarmaple ss ks eas 2 24, es fo) fo) 
Pye hickory . 2). '5 . «+ « 2 oh Pee fe) fo) 
iBlaek hickory. 2.9.3. I 20, mace fe) fo) 
Location, flat woods near Princeton; formation, ‘St. Louis. 
limestone; undergrowth very scarce. 
Average 
Name. Number. diameter. Dead. Decayed. 
pRGraT TFEG aa OO ea 36:6 15 20 inches I 3 
SSA CY | 5 an a 5 I we fe) I 
Ruiniterniekory . 66)... 6 ss . 3 small fe) fo) 
Nwittetelme. els) Sieh ee cele 3 Nomen fe) I 
Blackwalnvt. .. . 2°. sient: 3 I-20 ‘ fe) I 
SSCL 0 OS Se ee oaks Ake I LP nl fo) I 
MaeaTGTB Ys 08.04 20 3), a: Vente) at xa 3 small fo) fo) 
Location, a creek swamp four miles from Princeton. — Liri- 
odendron trees are in the vicinity, though not in the section. 
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