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and of the armorial device of the State copied from the Great Seal. In the 

 description of the State, Mount Mitchell is stated to be the highest point 

 of land in the United States, east ©f the Rocky Mountains. We are grati- 

 fied to see the reputation of the Senior Professor in our University estab- 

 lished upon so durable, firm and elevated a basis. 



The mechanical execution of the book however, is decidedly inferior to 

 Mitchell's ; but such is not the case vrith the Atlas, vrhich is the neatest 

 and most accurate collection of maps for the use of Schools, vrhich has 

 fallen under our observation. The new counties, Henderson and Cherokee, 

 created by our last General Assembly, are delineated on the map of the 

 State. 



[From the Highland Messenger, .June 12, 1840.] 



It seems that Mr. Smith, the geographer, and the editor of the Raleigh 

 Register, have taken " the responsibility " to inform " the whole world," 

 that the Black Mountain in this County, is hereafter and forever to be 

 called Mount Mitchell, Now, inasmuch as this has been done without 

 once deigning to consult the good people of Buncombe, whose authority is 

 always higher, than any powers whatever at Haleigh (as they are some- 

 thing like a mile above them,) we hereby give notice to all whom it may 

 concern, and to all whom it may not concern, that Black Mountain is to 

 be Black Mountain as long as Buncombe remains Buncombe. If Mr. 

 Smith will publish another edition of his work, and consent to call Bun- 

 combe, Mount Smith, then we will consent to call the Black Mountain 

 Mount Mitchell. 



[From the Highland Messenger, June 19. 1840 ] 



smith's geography. 



It has been suggested to us that our remarks last week in reference to 

 the change of the name of the Black Mountain, were calculated to do in- 

 justice to the individual, to perpetuate whose memory the change of the 

 name had been proposed. It was certainly the farthest from our intention 

 to do injustice to any one, and particularly to detract in the smallest pos- 

 sible degree from the well earned, and well deserved reputation of Profes- 

 sor Mitchell. We penned the article in question, under the impression 

 that Mr. Smith had applied the name of Mount Mitchell, to the whole 

 mountain range, so well known in this region as the Black Mountain. — 

 The latter appellative has its foundation in nature, and is too old and too 

 well established to justify any attempt at substitution. The thought would 

 be preposterous. We are perfectly willing to concede the name of Mount 

 Mitchell to that particular point on the Black Mountain, which Professor 

 Mitchell, after a degree of labor and expense, which none other than a 



