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wood. The chestnuts begin as soon as Chester sandstone- 
ig-reached, in ascending the hill. The timbers here given 
are nothing more than a fair average, and all of them may. 
be found on any high hill in this part of the State. 
After reaching the top of the Winding Stairs, there stretches 
out a long, irregularly-level expanse of country, on which the- 
timbers are not worth special mention. From this level the: 
road descends to Lower Stufflebean Creek, about two and 
one half miles from Beattyville. The formation is Sub-con- 
glomerate shale, varying into Conglomerate sandstone. The 
timbers are not noteworthy, except that holly and swamp. 
alder appear in considerable quantities. 
For several miles beyond Beattyville, toward Jackson, no» 
great changes in the forests occur, and the timbers are such 
as are usually met with on the lowlands. We follow the- 
Kentucky river tolerably closely for a considerable distance. 
About three and one half miles from Beattyville, along the- 
river bank, grow perfect thickets of pawpaws, which often 
reach a height of fifty feet! “With them, and along the foot- 
hills, grow red and white elm, sycamore, black and blue ash,. 
linden, big buckeye, water and common beech, liriodendron, 
hemlock, swamp alder, pith elder, red oak, iron-wood, amelan- 
chier, sweet gum, golden alexander, red and black haw, and: 
hawthorn. On the higher hills are post oak, black oak, red 
oak, scarlet oak, mountain oak, black locust, and the usual. 
hill timbers. About five miles from Beattyville the forests of 
white oak are as fine, along the rich hill-sides, as I ever saw. 
Hickories are splendid also, and walnut, liriodendron, chest- 
nut (on sandstone formations), and linden are unsurpassed 
along all the ravines whose waters head in the rich woods 
below the brows of the high hills. The tops of the hills are 
crowned with black oak, scarlet oak, mountain chestnut oak, 
rock maple, scrub hickories, and pines. 
The splendid timbers given above continue, with only local 
breaks, all along Lower and Upper Twin Creeks, and the hills 
through which they flow. The latter stream empties into 
Middle Fork of Kentucky river, within about twelve or thir- 
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