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other important schools are the Central Uni- 

 versity of Kentucky at Danville, Wesleyan 

 University at Winchester, Berea College at 

 Berea, Ogden College at Bowling Green, the 

 University of Louisville, founded and main- 

 tained by the city of Louisville, and Transyl- 

 vania University at Lexington. Among the 

 schools for negroes are Bowling Green Academy 

 at Bowling Green, Danville Polytechnic Semi- 

 nary at Danville, Free Memorial Institute at 

 Camp Nelson, and Wayman Institute at Har- 

 rodsburg. The state maintains two normal 

 schools for training white teachers, one at 



average height of about 800 feet above sea 

 level and sloping gently toyvards the north 

 and west to the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. 

 This plateau is divided, however, into a num- 

 ber of distinctly marked physical regions. The 

 southeastern portion is mountainous and be- 

 longs to the Appalachian Mountain system, 

 known here as the Alleghany Mountains. 

 Here are found the Cumberland Mountains, 

 which extend along most of the southeastern 

 boundary, and contain the highest point in the 

 state, Big Black Mountain, with an altitude of 

 4,100 feet. West of the Cumberland Moun- 



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SCALE OF MILES 



OUTLINE MAP OP KENTUCKY 



Showing the boundaries of the state, location of principal cities and rivers, gas and oil fields, de- 

 posits of coal, and the highest point of land in the state. 



Richmond and the other at Bowling Green; 

 and there is a normal school for negro teach- 

 ers at Frankfort. In 1910 there were 208,084 

 persons who could not read and write, forming 

 nearly 12.1 per cent of all the people, as com- 

 pared with 16.5 per cent in 1900. The per- 

 centage of illiterates was 27.6 per cent among 

 negroes, 8.3 per cent among the foreign-born 

 whites, and 12.2 per cent among native whites. 

 Of late years an active movement to reduce 

 the number of illiterates has been started, the 

 chief means employed being the opening of the 

 public schools at night. See SCHOOLS, subtitle 

 Moonlight Schools. 



Physical Features. The surface of the state 

 as a whole is mainly a plateau, having an 



tains and nearly parallel with them is the 

 shorter range of the White Mountains. Be- 

 tween these two ranges lies the Cumberland 

 Valley, which has a length of seventy-five 

 miles and a breadth of about fifteen miles, 

 situated at an elevation from 1,000 to 1,500 

 feet and buttressed by peaks sometimes 3,500 

 feet high. The combination of mountain and 

 valley in this region forms some of the most 

 beautiful scenery in the Appalachian system. 



The greater part of the north and central 

 part of the state is rolling and undulating, the 

 surface being diversified by hills and valleys. 

 Here is situated the famous "blue grass re- 

 gion," also called the Lexington Plain; it cov- 

 ers an area of about 10,000 square miles and is 



