478 



FOREST RESOURCES OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



the most characteristic and vahiable elements of our own uneqnaled forests disappear 

 one by one. How this can come to pass is already bnt too evident to any one who has 

 observed the woful destruction within a single generation of the long-leaf pine, for ex- 

 ample, the most useful forest-tree of them all, or of the juniper or the palmetto, both 

 on our own coasts, and especially of South Carolina. 



In the swamps of North Carolina, bordering the seashore and tide- 

 waters, there are successive generations of buried forests, the timber of 

 which is in good preservation, and ready to be exhumed whenever there 

 may be occasion.^ The same is true, to some extent, in cedar and cy- 

 press swamps elsewhere. 



Exportation, coastwise and foreign, of forest products from the port of Wilmington, X. C. 



Destination of forest products exported coastwise in 1875 from the port of Wilmington, N. C. 



*Also to Richmond. 350,811 ; toThomaston, 343,065 ; to Bucksport. 181.320; to Providence, 25.5.000; and 

 to Burlington, 141,650 feet. (From reports of the Daily Journal ; Engineer's Report, 1876, part i, p. 310. 



FLORIDA. 



The water-shed of the Perdido and the Escambia, the Blackwater, 

 and their affluents covers a large area of pine-lands. The Saint John 

 Eiver was also an important source of supply for several years before 

 the late war, and is so still. A common estimate of yield of pine is 

 4,000 feet of lumber per acre, but good judges have expressed the opin- 

 ion that this is too great for a general average. Cypress-lands will 

 often cut 20,000. In this State, around the upper waters of the streams 

 flowing into the Gulf, the principal government reservations of live-oak 

 for the use of the Navy are located. 



1 Geology of North Carolina (Professor Kerr's report), 1, p. 102. 



