a 
Miscollaniés, | 379° 
; Peaks of Otter, Viral 3 ST te = SS 
Table “Mowatiia: Burke, Nortit Caroli, tse — Sat 
‘Grandfather, - po ae "SSS 
Yeates’ Knob, 2 eg. SieN, wel reg." BBS 
: ad at Thomas Young's e . vi ORs 
: SE aie eT OE 
Highest ees of the Black, : 6,476 
e There are other high mountains at no great_ dideses from those that 
were measured, as the Bald Mountain in the western part of Yancy, and 
the White Topi Virginia, which are nearly if not quite as higli as the ' 
Roan. In the southeastern part of Haywood county, near the South 
Carolina line, there is a tremendous pile, and between the counties of 
Haywood and Macon and the State of Tennessee, the Unikee Mountain 
_ swells to a great elevation. ‘But these appear to the eye to be lower than 
the Black. ; 
The Pilot Minsataits which has heretofore enjoyed great celebrity, is 
much lower than several others. The ascent of the Black Mountain is 
very difficult on account of the thick laurels which are so closely. set, and 
their strong branches so interwoven, that a path cannot be forced by push- 
ing them aside; and the hunters have no method’ of advancing, when 
they happen-to fall i in with the worst of them, but that of crawling along 
their tops. The bear, in passing up and down the mountain, finds it 
Wisest to keep the ridges, and trampling down the young laurels as they 
Spring up, breaking the limbs from the old ones and’ pushing them aside, 
he forms at last a sort of burrow above ground, through this bed of vege- 
tation, along which he passes without difficulty. This is a bear trail. 
The top is covered with the balsam fir, from the dark and sombre shade 
of whose foliage it doubtless received the name of the Black Mountain. 
The growth of the tree is such on these high summits, that it is easy to 
oe to the top and taking hold of the highest branch look. abroad upon 
ne Beet At the time of our visit, the smoumhaily was Seas in 
a return with the least ponte delay, and this when it was clear weather, 
at a small distance below the ridge and the thermometer at 80°. 
The temperature of a few wells and springs is subjoined. The finest 
iced water is a vapid drink,.in comparison with the pure element that 
gushes from the sides of these western mountains. 
Wells on Chapel Hill, Oct. aig e's i : 59° 
Well i in Lincolnton, July 16, : Pit eget Bye 
& Moanin, July 16, "=". i : - §8°° 
= Spring i in Keller’s Field, ee 
Daniel Moore’ s Globe Setlment, zs - B79 
oes _James Riddle’ 8, 54° 
